224 Quotes by T.S. Eliot

A poesia de um povo deriva sua vida da fala do povo e, por sua vez, dá-lhe uma vida; e representa o seu ponto mais elevado de consciência, o seu maior poder e a sua mais delicada sensibilidade.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything.

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose

But poets more classical than they have the same essential quality of transmuting ideas into sensations, of transforming an observation into a state of mind.

Footfalls echo in the memorydown the passage we did not taketowards the door we never openedinto the rose garden. My words echothus, in your mind

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.