Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. T. S. Eliot lastsdoneyears Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake. T. S. Eliot aimsakeculture Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot organized-lifetoo-much-informationknowledge The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot lastsdeedstemptation At the still point, there the dance is. T. S. Eliot scenedancebeautiful It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. T. S. Eliot mightmenlife Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. T. S. Eliot difficultypermanentmoments The darkness declares the glory of light. T. S. Eliot glorylightdarkness I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. T. S. Eliot wallhatechildren The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself. T. S. Eliot curiousriskshould All time is unreedemable. T. S. Eliot all-time There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. T. S. Eliot maydoorsway Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. T. S. Eliot constantsensibleworld I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. T. S. Eliot remarkablecatbelieve If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot tough-timeshard-timesadversity Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. T. S. Eliot epitaphphrasesends Hurry up, please, its time. T. S. Eliot pleasetime Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth. T. S. Eliot agemenmean Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning. T. S. Eliot languagecivilizationorder We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational. T. S. Eliot passionemotionaljustice
