T. S. Eliot Quotes, Heart Quotes, Mind Quotes

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Heart Quotes , Mind Quotes

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Real Quotes , Poetry Is Quotes

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Business Quotes , Crowds Quotes

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Poetry Quotes

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Typewriters Quotes , Long Quotes

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , New Year Quotes

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Writing Quotes , Poetry Quotes

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Imagination Quotes

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Urban Quotes , Planning Quotes

Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Running Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Girl Quotes , Sea Quotes

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Book Quotes , People Quotes

To make an end is to make a beginning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Eye Quotes

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Men Quotes

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Poetry Quotes , Literature Quotes

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fall Quotes , Philosophical Quotes

To make an end is to make a beginning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Humility Quotes , Sea Quotes

When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , God Quotes , Feelings Quotes