T. S. Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”

“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.”

“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.”

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”

“The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.”

“There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.”

“Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.”

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”