You are the music while the music lasts.

Quote by T S Eliot

Topics: Life Quotes, Music Quotes

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

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...

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?

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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;...

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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,...

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.

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...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

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...

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...