A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot intelligence crafts intelligent The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot new-year spring life There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause T. S. Eliot lost-cause causes lost Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together. T. S. Eliot effort together night Past art is subject to change. T. S. Eliot art-is past art A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals. T. S. Eliot discipline faith philosophy We took up T. S. Eliot obedience instruction war You can evade life, but you can not evade Death. T. S. Eliot life-death can-not life Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before. T. S. Eliot happened atheism men Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness. T. S. Eliot taken darkness wonder I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! T. S. Eliot cat believe ideas As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. T. S. Eliot squad laughter stars And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover. T. S. Eliot voice sea heart Poetry is a mug's game. T. S. Eliot mug poetry games Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. T. S. Eliot death hands way Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation. T. S. Eliot exaltation degradation degrees From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider. T. S. Eliot outsiders empathy views 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. T. S. Eliot christmas children moving Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat. T. S. Eliot cat dog The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories. T. S. Eliot christian graduation men
