The quotations of

T. S. Eliot

US-British poet

1888–1965

49 quotes, most often on Poetry, Life & Death and Courage. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.
- Movies
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- Writing
In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
- Wisdom
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.
- Movies
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
The Hollow Men (1925), Last linesIn context
- Life & Death
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 45In context
- Courage
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 1In context
- Poetry
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Lines 13 and 35In context
- Talking
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 79In context
- Courage
- Decisions
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February 1927)
- Atheism
- Faith
Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin
Poems (1920), “Whispers of Immortality”
- Life & Death
Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural — but little developed — aptitude for seriousness.
“The Contemporary English Novelist”, La Nouvelle Revue française (1 May 1927)
- Clever Jabs
- Writing
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIIn context
- Love
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919), Part II
- Poetry
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
The Hollow Men (1925), IIn context

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