And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid. T. S. Eliot snickerscoatsgreatness O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant T. S. Eliot vacantspacedark A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God. T. S. Eliot wrong-attitudecreationattitude With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.' T. S. Eliot feltfeelings In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. T. S. Eliot quartetsorderway The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot sacrificeselfart time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. T. S. Eliot timemightpast I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. T. S. Eliot healthyreadingexercise Art is the escape from personality. T. S. Eliot art-ispersonalityart The only hope, or else despair T. S. Eliot firehopelying No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. T. S. Eliot producepersonalityart My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think. T. S. Eliot nervesnightthinking For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T. S. Eliot new-beginningsnew-yearinspirational The wounded surgeon plies the steel T. S. Eliot compassionhandsart It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. T. S. Eliot designperfectneeds The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot new-startnew-beginningstunnels There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. T. S. Eliot window-panesfaces What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. T. S. Eliot cocktail-partiesmemoriespeople People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. T. S. Eliot influenceexercisepeople As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. T. S. Eliot patternscomplicatedworld
