Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Social Critic
St. Louis
Missouri
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Eliot
T S Eliot
Thomas Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Genuine
Communicate
Communication
Poet
Understood
Poetry
Understanding
Writing
More quotes by T. S. Eliot
You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
T. S. Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
T. S. Eliot
Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.
T. S. Eliot
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. Eliot
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
T. S. Eliot
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
T. S. Eliot
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
T. S. Eliot
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
T. S. Eliot
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
T. S. Eliot
life is long between the desire and the spasm.
T. S. Eliot
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
T. S. Eliot
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
T. S. Eliot
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God and this has never happened before.
T. S. Eliot
The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
T. S. Eliot
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
T. S. Eliot
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
T. S. Eliot
There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
T. S. Eliot
