I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Life Quotes

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

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

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

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

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...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right...

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

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...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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...

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is...

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is...

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.