T. S. Eliot Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

You are the music while the music lasts. - T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music, You, Lasts, While

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? - T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Knowledge, Lost, Information, Where

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

World, Way, Bang, Ends

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge, Lost, Living

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Passion, Light, Blind, Person, Never

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Best, Character, Facts, Worst, Become

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.

Love, Faith, Hope, Waiting, Wrong, Thing

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Negative, Nasty, Narrow

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. - T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Wise, You, Know, Rules, Them, Observe

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Intelligence, Intelligent, Very, Method

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Struggle, Words, Strange, Like, Breath

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Down, Trouble, Up And Down, Up, Greatest

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Personality, Progress, Artist

April is the cruellest month.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Most, Some, Failed, Editors, Writers

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Passion, Knowledge, Character, Our

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Religion, Know, Literature, Too Much

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Time, World, Space, Brainy, Only, Selves

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Art, Never, Same, Quite, Material

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.

Life, Age, Believe, Think, Early, Older

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, Always, Never, Beyond, Every

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

View, Point Of View, Real, Ideal, Point

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. - T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Reality, Cannot, Bear, Very, Much

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

Mother, You, Baby, Hatred, Young, Desire

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. - T. S. Eliot

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

Tiger, New, Us, Year, He, Springs

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.

Life, Time, Poetry, Game, Value, Feel

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