You are the music while the music lasts.

Quote by T S Eliot

Topics: Life Quotes, Music Quotes

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...

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,...

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

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...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

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?

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.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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...

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

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...

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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...