Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended T. S. Eliot turnsrealmay Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language. T. S. Eliot ablejudgingtime What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot recoverydancedeath Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. T. S. Eliot cheesefoodfirsts Good poets borrow, great poets steal T. S. Eliot great-poetstealingpoet Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative. T. S. Eliot siftingtoilcreative Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence. T. S. Eliot silenceenoughfound Distracted from distraction by distraction T. S. Eliot distractedsocial-mediadistraction When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. T. S. Eliot creativityattitudegiving Love is the unfamiliar Name T. S. Eliot flameslove-islife If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable T. S. Eliot all-timeifs Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot languageshouldhelping When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. T. S. Eliot experiencepoetmind Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. T. S. Eliot quartetstimes-pastpast And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea. T. S. Eliot window-panesyellowhands Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. T. S. Eliot window-panesvisiontea It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be. T. S. Eliot oughtenoughknows The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. T. S. Eliot quartetshintshalf The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot readingworkfunny I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. T. S. Eliot poetrylonelinessthinking
