T. S. Eliot Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Lady of silences
  Calm and distressed
  Torn and most whole
  Rose of memory
  Rose of forgetfulness
  Exhausted and life-giving
  Worried reposeful
  The single Rose
  Is now the Garden
  Where all loves end
  Terminate torment
  Of love unsatisfied
  The greater torment
  Of love satisfied
  End of the endless
  Journey to no end
  Conclusion of all that
  Is inconclusible
  Speech without word and
  Word of no speech
  Grace to the Mother
  For the Garden
  Where all love ends.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Mother, Memories

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Thinking, Play

• Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Political, Want

• You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Odds, Giving

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Creativity, Giving

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

• A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Ordinary, Alive

• Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Simple, Reality

• Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Promise, Friendly

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 17 (1919)

• You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Giving, Credit

  Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Professor T S Eliot (2011). “Letters of T. S. Eliot: 1898-1922”, p.482, Yale University Press

• But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
  To give you, what can you receive from me?
  Only the friendship and the sympathy
  Of one about to reach her journey's end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Journey, Giving, Ends

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.25, Broadview Press

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