So the lover must struggle for words.

Quote by T S Eliot

Topics: T S Eliot Quotes

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.