T. S. Eliot Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Hope, Light

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

• I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Dark, Light

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

• I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Soul, Gates, Housemaids

  'Morning at the Window' (1917)

• When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cities, Community, Soul

  "The Rock". Play by T. S. Eliot, 1934.

• The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Soul

• The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Soul, Creation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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