{"author":"T.S. Eliot","author_id":"T.S.+Eliot","total_quotes":144,"quotes":[{"text":"If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["silence","word"],"id":8724,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["inspirational-attitude"],"id":15908,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every moment.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["eternity","life","man","moment","time"],"id":19291,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["experience","formation","poet-s-mind","unity"],"id":21494,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["east-coker","humility","wisdom"],"id":22753,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["shakespeare"],"id":22968,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd the wisdom of age? Had they deceived usOr deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?The serenity only a deliberate hebetude,The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secretsUseless in the darkness into which they peeredOr from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us,At best, only a limited valueIn the knowledge derived from experience.The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,For the pattern is new in every momentAnd every moment is a new and shockingValuation of all we have been. We are only undeceivedOf that which, deceiving, could no longer harm.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["deception","experience","knowledge","maturity","wisdom"],"id":24418,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes;It is always the same, wherever one goes.And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people saythat they do not like fighting, will often displayEvery symptom of wanting to join in the fray.And theyBark bark bark bark bark barkUntil you can hear them all over the park.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["cats","poetry"],"id":28855,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["clarity-of-perception","historical","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","human-perception","jared-wheat","past","past-and-future","perception","presence","the-past"],"id":29247,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"},{"text":"For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.","author":"T.S. Eliot","tags":["life"],"id":31991,"author_id":"T.S.+Eliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":144,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}