Thomas Sterns Eliot quotes Born: 09/26/1888 Died: 01/04/1965 Country: usa

• In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. (Thomas Eliot) [women]
• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (Thomas Eliot) [poetry]
• Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together. (Thomas Eliot) [day/night]
• We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. (Thomas Eliot)
• And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. (Thomas Eliot) [speech/being/language]
• An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. (Thomas Eliot)
• I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. (Thomas Eliot) [writers/writers]
• The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. (Thomas Eliot) [temptation/treachery/right]
• 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. (Thomas Eliot) [start/willpower/time]
• Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. (Thomas Eliot) [love/matter]
• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. (Thomas Eliot) [more/time]
• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. (Thomas Eliot) [pain/prison]
• I will show you fear in a handful of dust. (Thomas Eliot) [willpower/fear/dust]
• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. (Thomas Eliot) [eyes/water/vanity/death]
• The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying. (Thomas Eliot)
• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. (Thomas Eliot) [fight/men/suffering]
• Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. (Thomas Eliot)
• When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. (Thomas Eliot) [human/behavior/attitude/result]
• Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. (Thomas Eliot) [wisdom/knowledge/awareness]
• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. (Thomas Eliot) [more/value]
• In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (Thomas Eliot) [time/willpower]
• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. (Thomas Eliot) [people/exercise/being]
• You are the music while the music lasts. (Thomas Eliot) [music/music]
• We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. (Thomas Eliot) [concentration/thing/concentration/concentration]
• It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. (Thomas Eliot)
• It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life. (Thomas Eliot) [poetry/life]
• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. (Thomas Eliot) [people]
• Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. (Thomas Eliot) [think/generation/think/think]
• Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. (Thomas Eliot) [time/past/time/future]
• There is no method but to be very intelligent. (Thomas Eliot) [method]
• A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. (Thomas Eliot) [tradition/intelligence]

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