Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. T. S. Eliot cunning issues history The work of creation is never without travail. T. S. Eliot creation 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. T. S. Eliot time believe thinking And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. T. S. Eliot sunlight hours coffee Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. T. S. Eliot shadow essence fall There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. T. S. Eliot point-of-view real views You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. T. S. Eliot risk courage inspiring The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. Eliot crafts poetry conscious In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot ends For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot spoons coffee morning Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still T. S. Eliot dry air wings I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones. T. S. Eliot rats men thinking Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot reading-poetry writing art In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. T. S. Eliot women talking culture Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky T. S. Eliot sawdust evening sky Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance T. S. Eliot dancing inspirational life Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. T. S. Eliot grandchildren native-american peace And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching T. S. Eliot quartets purification motive One starts an action simply because one must do something. T. S. Eliot industry action It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. T. S. Eliot space self world
