There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid. T. S. Eliot snickers coats greatness O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant T. S. Eliot vacant space dark A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God. T. S. Eliot wrong-attitude creation attitude With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.' T. S. Eliot felt feelings In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. T. S. Eliot quartets order way The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot sacrifice self art time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. T. S. Eliot time might past I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. T. S. Eliot healthy reading exercise Art is the escape from personality. T. S. Eliot art-is personality art The only hope, or else despair T. S. Eliot fire hope lying No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. T. S. Eliot produce personality art My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think. T. S. Eliot nerves night thinking For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T. S. Eliot new-beginnings new-year inspirational The wounded surgeon plies the steel T. S. Eliot compassion hands art It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. T. S. Eliot design perfect needs The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot new-start new-beginnings tunnels There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. T. S. Eliot window-panes faces What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. T. S. Eliot cocktail-parties memories people People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. T. S. Eliot influence exercise people As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. T. S. Eliot patterns complicated world
