Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome


T.S. Eliot

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This love is silent.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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And we must think no further of you.
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The dripping blood our only drink,
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For he will do
As he do do
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To country people Cows are mild,
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We have only to conquer
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Now is the triumph...
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The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and...
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Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.
T.S. ELIOT
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
T.S. ELIOT
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences...
T.S. ELIOT
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Mar...
T.S. ELIOT
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human ...
T.S. ELIOT
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
T.S. ELIOT
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
T.S. ELIOT
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to ...
T.S. ELIOT
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
T.S. ELIOT
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
T.S. ELIOT
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT
When lovely woman stoops to folly and / Paces about her room again, alone, / She smoothes her hair w...
T.S. ELIOT
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
T.S. ELIOT
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
T.S. ELIOT
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
T.S. ELIOT
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
T.S. ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
T.S. ELIOT
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
T.S. ELIOT
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
T.S. ELIOT
That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
T.S. ELIOT
Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
T.S. ELIOT
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
T.S. ELIOT
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT
I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w...
T.S. ELIOT
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan...
T.S. ELIOT
The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. ELIOT
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S. ELIOT
Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
T.S. ELIOT
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
T.S. ELIOT
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T.S. ELIOT
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
T.S. ELIOT
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
T.S. ELIOT
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T.S. ELIOT
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
T.S. ELIOT
There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
T.S. ELIOT
We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine
T.S. ELIOT
Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
T.S. ELIOT
It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T.S. ELIOT
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT