Quotes from TS Eliot

Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow

Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

Admonished by the sun's inclining ray, And swift approaches of the thievish day, The white-armed Fresca blinks, and yawns, and gapes, Aroused from dreams of love and pleasant rapes.

Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

Do I dare. Disturb the universe?

Musing upon the king my brother's wreck And on the king my father's death before him.

When the Stranger says: 'What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?' What will you answer? 'We all dwell together To make money from each other'? or 'This is a community'? And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.

O LORD, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Who is this that cometh from Edom? He has trodden the wine-press alone.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

This love is silent.