Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary. T. S. Eliot agonydesirethinking For you know only a heap of broken images T. S. Eliot broken-imagesbrokenknows Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall T. S. Eliot sunsetparisspring Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. T. S. Eliot disillusionmentdisillusionillusion There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. T. S. Eliot musicfearinspirational The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together. T. S. Eliot poetryfeelingswriting What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t. T. S. Eliot agonywritingtrying War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. T. S. Eliot ignoredmaywar My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. T. S. Eliot lightlifedeath Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. T. S. Eliot enviousenvypeople No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. T. S. Eliot individual-talentartistart Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech T. S. Eliot smellneedsthinking Love is most nearly itself T. S. Eliot darklifemoving Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible T. S. Eliot importantwritinglittles Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. T. S. Eliot lost-friendshipbitingfriendship Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain. T. S. Eliot logicpainart If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned. T. S. Eliot our-wordsunderstandingdeeds Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot expressionmeanart We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass. T. S. Eliot returndoors And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust T. S. Eliot dustfearmorning
