ts eliot

“ After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, ”

“ For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ”

“ I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. ”

“ I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ”

“ There's no vocabulary for love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent. ”

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

“ The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ”

“ We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. ”

“ And time yet for a hundred indecision, ”

“ It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry That is a life. ”