Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot For you know only a heap of broken images T. S. Eliot broken-images broken knows 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 sunset paris spring Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. T. S. Eliot disillusionment disillusion illusion There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. T. S. Eliot music fear inspirational 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 poetry feelings writing 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 agony writing trying War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. T. S. Eliot ignored may war My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. T. S. Eliot light life death Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. T. S. Eliot envious envy people No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. T. S. Eliot individual-talent artist art Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech T. S. Eliot smell needs thinking Love is most nearly itself T. S. Eliot dark life moving 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 important writing littles Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. T. S. Eliot lost-friendship biting friendship 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 logic pain art 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-words understanding deeds 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 expression mean art We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass. T. S. Eliot return doors 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 dust fear morning I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, T. S. Eliot mortality tired dying
