T. S. Eliot quotes and words of wisdom

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
Found in the topic Book.

"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
Found in the topic Television.

"Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden."
Found in the topic Memory.

"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."
Found in the topic Age.

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values."
Found in the topic Art.

"The last temptation is the greatest treason; To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
Found in the topic Purpose.

"Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn."
Found in the topic Woe.

"Human kind Cannot bear very much reality."
Found in the topic Housework.

"Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning."
Found in the topic Action.

"Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
Found in the topic Life.

"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."
Found in the topic Poetry.

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."
Found in the topic Discovery.

Interesting Quotes

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.Bill Cosby - US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)