813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

How wild it was, to let it be.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.