T. S. Eliot Way Quotations

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

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

People find a way in which they can say something.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.