Quotes from T. S. Eliot

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

Hurry up, please, its time.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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.

So the lover must struggle for words.

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

All time is unreedemable.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

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.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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