T. S. Eliot Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

• Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Time, Poetry

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

• Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
  Into different lives, or into any future;
  You are not the same people who left that station
  Or who will arrive at any terminus,
  While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Escaping

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.170, Faber & Faber

• A people without history
  Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
  Of timeless moments.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, People, Patterns

  Little Gidding (1942) pt. 5

• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Quartets

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

• time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Might

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.904, Faber & Faber

• Hurry up, please, its time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Please

  The Waste Land l. 169 (1922)

• Here between the hither and the farther shore
  While time is withdrawn, consider the future
  And the past with an equal mind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Past, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.173, Faber & Faber

• Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Judging, Able

• The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Tired, Action

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Winter, Journey

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

• There will be time to murder and create.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Window Panes, Murder

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

  T. S. Eliot

  Daughter, Time, Spring

  The Waste Land l. 196 (1922)

• Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

  T. S. Eliot

  Goodbye, Time, Ends

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.20, Courier Corporation

• And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Hair, Wonder

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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