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Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes
“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”
“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
“It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.”
“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“So the lover must struggle for words.”
“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.”
“Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.”