Quote

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

T. S. Eliot

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Teeth
Laughter
Aware
Becoming
Drill
Talent
Squad
Involved
Drills
Stars
Accidental
Part
Laughed

More quotes by T. S. Eliot

Image
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
T. S. Eliot
Image
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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
T. S. Eliot
Image
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
T. S. Eliot
Image
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
T. S. Eliot
Image
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot
Image
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
T. S. Eliot
Image
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.
T. S. Eliot
Image
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
Image
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
T. S. Eliot
Image
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
T. S. Eliot
Image
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot
Image
That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
T. S. Eliot
Image
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
T. S. Eliot
Image
There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Past art is subject to change.
T. S. Eliot