T. S. Eliot Quotes, Care Quotes, Praying Quotes

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Care Quotes , Praying Quotes

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Hair Quotes

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Crafts Quotes , Stealing Quotes

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The darkness declares the glory of light.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Light Quotes , Darkness Quotes

We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Mind Love Quotes

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Blood Quotes , Theatre 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

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Beach Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Boxers Quotes , Poet Quotes

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Window Panes Quotes

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Cracks Quotes , Decay Quotes

We must learn to suffer more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Men Quotes

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Courage Quotes

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Smell Quotes

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Hints Quotes , Half Quotes