Vastel T S Quotes

April is the cruellest month. ~ T. S. Eliot

The first step of any journey must be taken with daring in your heart. Don't let fear clog your arteries. ~ T.S. Welti

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. ~ T. S. Eliot

Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; ~ T. S. Eliot

The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
To be redeemed from fire by fire. ~ T. S. Eliot

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries. ~ T. S. Eliot

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. ~ T. S. Eliot

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning. ~ T. S. Eliot

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider. ~ T. S. Eliot

when the heart prompts,duty becomes a pleasure. ~ T.S. Arthur

Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road ~ T.S. Eliot

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be. ~ T. S. Eliot

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. ~ T. S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. ~ T. S. Eliot

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control ... ~ T. S. Eliot

I that was near your heart was removed therefrom ~ T. S. Eliot

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing ~ T. S. Eliot

And in short, I was afraid. ~ T.S. Eliot

The vast accumulations of knowledge - or at least of information - deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts. ~ T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you
Which shall be the darkness of God. ~ T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us. ~ T. S. Eliot

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled. ~ T. S. Eliot

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ~ T. S. Eliot

My name is only an anagram of toilets. ~ T. S. Eliot

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ~ T. S. Eliot

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you. ~ T. S. Eliot

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. ~ T. S. Eliot

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. ~ T. S. Eliot

A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals. ~ T. S. Eliot

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. ~ T. S. Eliot

The pain of living and the drug of dreams
curl up the small soul in the window seat. ~ T. S. Eliot

There are several attitudes towards Christmas,
Some of which we may disregard:
The social, the torpid, the patently commercial,
The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight),
And the childish - which is not that of the child
For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel
Spreading its wings at the summit of the tree
Is not only a decoration, but an angel.

The child wonders at the Christmas Tree:
Let him continue in the spirit of wonder
At the Feast as an event not accepted as a pretext;
So that the glittering rapture, the amazement
Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree,
So that the surprises, delight in new possessions
(Each one with its peculiar and exciting smell),
The expectation of the goose or turkey
And the expected awe on its appearance,

So that the reverence and the gaiety
May not be forgotten in later experience,
In the bored habituation, the fatigue, the tedium,
The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure,
Or in the piety of the convert
Which may be tainted with a self-conceit
Displeasing to God and disrespectful to children
(And here I remember also with gratitude
St. Lucy, her carol, and her crown of fire):

So that before the end, the eightieth Christmas
(By "eightieth" meaning whichever is last)
The accumulated memories of annual emotion
May be concentrated ~ T.S. Eliot

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG ~ T. S. Eliot