~ T. S. Eliot Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

[MysteRy]

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

[MysteRy]

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

[MysteRy]

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

[MysteRy]

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

[MysteRy]

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

[MysteRy]

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.

[MysteRy]

Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

[MysteRy]

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you let a young mother hear you call dear baby it.''

[MysteRy]

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

[MysteRy]

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

[MysteRy]

The poet's mind is ... 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.

[MysteRy]

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

[MysteRy]

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

[MysteRy]

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.