T. S. Eliot Is Quotations

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

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Art is the escape from personality.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

Home is where one starts from.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

It is worth dying to find out what life is.

Past art is subject to change.

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.