T. S. Eliot Quotes, Night Quotes, Thinking Quotes

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Do I dare disturb the universe?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fear Quotes , Clever Quotes

Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Music Quotes , Thyme Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Hard Times Quotes

People find a way in which they can say something.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , People Quotes

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Food Quotes , Winter Quotes

Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Dream Quotes , Vision Quotes

I've been born, and once is enough.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Enough Quotes

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Music Quotes , Thyme Quotes

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Order Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Talent imitates, genius steals.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Genius Quotes , Talent Quotes

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Pain Quotes