"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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7/12/11

T. S. Eliot Quotes


Rose Amphitheatre, Cook Park, Orange NSW

"Footfalls echo in the memory,
Down the passage which we did not take,
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden." 
~T. S. Eliot on Love

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." ~T. S. Eliot from Everyman's Library

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~T.S. Elliot

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality." ~T. S. Eliot

"I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" ~T. S. Eliot

"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." ~T.S. Elito (1888-1965)

"I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." and "October is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire." (I know it's April--I live in the month of October in dread) ~T. S. Eliot

"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." ~T.S. Eliot

"In a world of fugitives
The person taking the opposite direction
Will appear to run away." ~T.S. Eliot

"In thy beauty lie the dilemma of flutes." ~T.S. Eliot

"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it." ~T.S. Eliot

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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." ~TS Eliot 

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T.S. Eliot

“The journey not the arrival matters.” ~T.S. Elliot

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” ~T.S Eliot

"There is a sadness in realizing that the person you have become is not the person you once wanted to be. It is the sadness of looking back on your life and seeing all the ways you have compromised, all the dreams you have let go, all the parts of yourself you have lost along the way. And in that sadness, there is a sense of mourning, not just for the life you could have had, but for the person you could have been." ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 

"To do the useful thing,
to say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful thing:
that's enough for one man's life." ~T.S. Eliot

"To make an end is to make a beginning." ~T.S. Eliot

“When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost – and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.” ~TS Elliot

“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

"You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles' hill. You will go on, and when you have prevailed, you can say: many a one has failed." ~T. S. Eliot

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