T. S. Eliot
36 quotations
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
You are the music while the music lasts.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.