Quote

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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
Accident
Accidents
Clouds
Design
Unknowing
Cloud

More quotes by T. S. Eliot

Image
Words move, music moves Only in time but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Image
Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God and this has never happened before.
T. S. Eliot
Image
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
T. S. Eliot
Image
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
T. S. Eliot
Image
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.
T. S. Eliot
Image
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
T. S. Eliot
Image
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
T. S. Eliot
Image
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.
T. S. Eliot
Image
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
T. S. Eliot
Image
Hurry up, please, its time.
T. S. Eliot
Image
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
T. S. Eliot
Image
The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.
T. S. Eliot
Image
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
T. S. Eliot
Image
I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
T. S. Eliot