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 More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. T. S. Eliot disciplinepoliticalrelaxation Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. T. S. Eliot nastynegative You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot jazz-and-lifedopemusic Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past. T. S. Eliot desirelovepast Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. T. S. Eliot coloreyemen Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T. S. Eliot stealing-thingsimmaturedifferent What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place. T. S. Eliot one-timeaction The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing. T. S. Eliot helldefinitions In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. T. S. Eliot independenceoppositesrunning When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. T. S. Eliot certainpoetrydone No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom. T. S. Eliot independentmencountry It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. T. S. Eliot dyingdeathyears I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot lightdarkinspirational music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. T. S. Eliot thymemusiclasts Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment. T. S. Eliot before-and-afterintense-momentsburning The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man T. S. Eliot libraryhopemen The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names. T. S. Eliot holidaycatthinking In the life of one man, never The same time returns. T. S. Eliot returnchangemen My name is only an anagram of toilets. T. S. Eliot anagramstoiletsnames We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. T. S. Eliot progressorganizationhumanity
