T. S. Eliot Quotes About Singing

Quotes about: Singing

• I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Loneliness, Thinking, Poetry

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

• In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

  T. S. Eliot

  Singing, Moonlight, Grass

  1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beach, Thinking, Hair

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

• The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Heart, Singing

  "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" l. 35 (1919)

• And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

  T. S. Eliot

  Voice, Singing, Emptiness

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.697, Faber & Faber

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