For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Quote by TS Eliot

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Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Everybody is aware of the power of intelligence and hence the person, who uses his...

Everybody is aware of the power of intelligence and hence the person, who uses his...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.