15 Best T. S. Eliot Quotes And Sayings

“I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.” – T. S. Eliot

“Neither way is better. Both ways are necessary. It is also necessary To make a choice between them.” – T. S. Eliot

“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?” – T. S. Eliot

“The circle of our understanding Is a very restricted area. Except for a limited number Of strictly practical purposes We do not know what we are doing; And even then, when you think of it, We do not know much about thinking.” – T. S. Eliot

“Servant of God has chance of greater sin And sorrow, than the man who serves a king. For those who serve the greater cause may make the cause serve them, Still doing right: and striving with political men May make that cause political, not by what they do But by what they are.” – T. S. Eliot

“You will change your mind, but you are not free. Your moment of freedom was yesterday. You made a decision. You set in motion Forces in your life and in the lives of others Which cannot be reversed.” – T. S. Eliot

“The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.” – T. S. Eliot

“What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.” – T. S. Eliot

“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.” – T. S. Eliot

“Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never The same time returns. Sever The cord, shed the scale. Only The fool, fixed in his folly, may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns” – T. S. Eliot

“In life there is not time to grieve long But this, this is out of life, this is out of time, An instant eternity of evil and wrong.” – T. S. Eliot

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” – T. S. Eliot

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.” – T. S. Eliot

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” – T. S. Eliot

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” – T. S. Eliot