T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 19

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• 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

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• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

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• This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Joy, Painful, Moments

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

  T. S. Eliot

  Events, Bottles, Unexpected

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• A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Artist, Immature, Aliens

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Levels, Conscious

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Atheism, Foundation

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends, Quartets

  "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot".

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• The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

  T. S. Eliot

  Forever, Church, Building

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  T. S. Eliot

  Depressing, Mediocrity, Pressure

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Literature, Language

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• Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Struggle, May

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• Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Atheist, Perfect

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• ...the still point in a turning world.

  T. S. Eliot

  World, Stills

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  T. S. Eliot

  Birthday, Optimism, Age

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Meditation, Waiting

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

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• We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Invisible, Thee

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Law, Appreciate

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.346, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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• We must learn to suffer more.

  T. S. Eliot

  Suffering

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I gotta use words to talk to you.

  T. S. Eliot

  Use

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• Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  T. S. Eliot

  Thinking, Keys, Prison

  The Waste Land l. 412 (1922)

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• 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

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Poetry, Mug

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

  T. S. Eliot

  Evil, Deeds, Ends

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.256, Faber & Faber

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