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T. S. Eliot Quotes

T. S. Eliot quotes about time

American Poet September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965

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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity. T. S. Eliot
This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships. T. S. Eliot
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. 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. T. S. Eliot
There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create. And time for all the works and days of hands. That life and drop a question on your plate; T. S. Eliot
Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your... T. S. Eliot
Words move, music moves. Only in time; but that which is only living. Can only die. Words, after speech, reach. Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach. The stillness... T. S. Eliot
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote... T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot quote: "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the..."
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot
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. T. S. Eliot
We wait, we wait, And the saints and martyrs wait, for those who shall be martyrs and saints. Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen: I have seen these things in a shaft of sunlight. Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen. Who do, some well, some ill, planning and guessing, Having their aims which turn in their hands in the pattern of time. T. S. Eliot
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. Through the unknown, remembered gate. When the last of earth left to discover. Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river. The voice of the hidden waterfall. And the children in the apple-tree. Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness. Between two waves of the sea. T. S. Eliot
Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again. T. S. Eliot
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. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot quote: "But time past is a time forgotten. We expect the rise of a new..."
But time past is a time forgotten. We expect the rise of a new constellation. T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot quote: "Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time..."
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future. T. S. Eliot

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