If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. T. S. Eliot fridayjesusthinking Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand. T. S. Eliot simplicitysimplehands The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. T. S. Eliot buildingchurchforever I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots. T. S. Eliot stripescatnames These are only hints and guesses, T. S. Eliot hintsdisciplineprayer Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? T. S. Eliot eagleshopemen Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. T. S. Eliot wrathfearthinking I can connect Nothing with nothing T. S. Eliot waste-landwastelandi-can We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. T. S. Eliot atmospherenumbersbelieve We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open T. S. Eliot shouldnoisewindow The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant. T. S. Eliot parisstrongdanger Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety. T. S. Eliot craftstypewriterslong We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. T. S. Eliot breathingworkbook Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room T. S. Eliot lilacbowlsrooms That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all. T. S. Eliot Till Human voices wake us, and we drown. T. S. Eliot voicepoetryhumans The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards. T. S. Eliot determinedgreatnessliterature Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest. T. S. Eliot hatehatredself Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. T. S. Eliot admiringgraveschristianity Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. T. S. Eliot atheistchristianperfect
