All Quotes by T.S. Eliot
“Time for you and time for me,”
“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
“This is the way the world ends”
“Do I dare”
“Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.”
“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”
“There will be time, there will be time”
“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
“April is the cruelest month, breeding”
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
“Time present and time past”
“We shall not cease from exploration”
“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.”
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
“Time present and time past”
“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
“I think we are in rats’ alley”
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
“We shall not cease from exploration”
“And would it have been worth it, after all,”
“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.”
“We are the hollow men”
“So I find words I never thought to speak”
“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”
“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”
“Light”
“Time for you and time for me,”
“The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows,”
“This is the way the world ends”
“Let us go then, you and I,”
“Unreal City,”
“Unreal City,”
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”
“Time present and time past”
“Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”