Quotes T.S. Eliot

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us...

For us, there is only the trying.  The rest is no...

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a tr...

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions ...

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage whi...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly fi...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ...

Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writ...

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ...

I don't believe one grows older.  I think that wh...

And the wind shall say "Here were decent godless p...

An election is coming.  Universal peace is declar...

You are the music while the music lasts. ...

"When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I ...

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of...

"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the as...

"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits milli...

"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our lite...

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape fro...

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall y...

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."...

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."...

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."...

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."...

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our busin...