Quotes About Ts Eliot

#1. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

#2. What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Alanis Morissette

#3. The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike

#4. Moyers: {TS] Eliot speaks about the still point of the turning world, where motion and stasis are together, the hub where the movement of time and the stillness of eternity are together.

Joseph Campbell

#5. There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.

Bryan Procter

#6. The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

#7. More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.

Gayle Forman

#8. Pretty girls make graves

Jack Kerouac

#9. Devilish in my innocence.

Franz Kafka

#10. Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. When the fairy tale ends, there's only one way back... rewind

Tali Alexander

#12. I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Albert Einstein

#13. Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Eric Hoffer

#14. I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Ron Chernow

#15. For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Lauren Oliver

#16. Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.

Christopher Hitchens