Quotes

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Home is where one starts from.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“This love is silent.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“In my beginning is my end.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“April is the cruellest month.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“So the lover must struggle for words.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.” Thomas Stearns Eliot