Quotes By Author: T.S. Eliot
“Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..”
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“As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.”
“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”
“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.”
“James’s critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. […] In England, ideas run wild and pasture on the emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our feelings with ideas; we produce the public, the political, the emotional idea, evading sensation and thought. […] James in his novels is like the best French critics in maintaining a point of view, a view-point untouched by the parasite idea. He is the most intelligent man of his generation.”(Little Review, 1918)”
“Where is the wisdom?We lost in knowledgeWhere is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????”
“LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
“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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
“Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.”
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.”