If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot 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 able judging time 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 recovery dance death Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. T. S. Eliot cheese food firsts Good poets borrow, great poets steal T. S. Eliot great-poet stealing poet 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 sifting toil creative Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence. T. S. Eliot silence enough found Distracted from distraction by distraction T. S. Eliot distracted social-media distraction 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 creativity attitude giving Love is the unfamiliar Name T. S. Eliot flames love-is life If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable T. S. Eliot all-time ifs Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot language should helping 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 experience poet mind Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. T. S. Eliot quartets times-past past 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-panes yellow hands 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-panes vision tea 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 ought enough knows Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot art-is materials art The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation. T. S. Eliot quartets hints half The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot reading work funny I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. T. S. Eliot poetry loneliness thinking
