“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
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.”
TimeAll Quotes by T. S. Eliot
“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.”
Time“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
Politics“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
Poetry“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
Respect“This love is silent.”
Love“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”
Experience“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
Good“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
Death“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
Work“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
Communication“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
Art“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
Poetry“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
Knowledge“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
Intelligence“Home is where one starts from.”
Home“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
Poetry“You are the music while the music lasts.”
Music“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Fear“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”
Christmas