Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Death Quotes

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

In my end is my beginning.

In my end is my beginning.

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

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.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

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 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...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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.

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...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred...

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.

The true poem rests between the words.

The true poem rests between the words.

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation...