GREAT QUOTES OF T S ELIOT

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF T S ELIOT

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.” - T.S. Eliot

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot

“This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Eliot

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” - T.S. Eliot

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

― T. S. Eliot

“Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” - T.S. Eliot

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” - T.S. Eliot

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” - T.S. Eliot

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.” - T.S. Eliot

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

memory and desire, stirring

dull roots with spring rain.” - T.S. Eliot

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN KEATS

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GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN KEATS

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” - John Keats

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” - John Keats

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” - John Keats

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” - John Keats

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” - John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” - John Keats

“Touch has a memory.” - John Keats

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.” - John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.” - John Keats

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion-
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.” - John Keats

GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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GREAT QUOTES OF W B YEATS

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” - W.B. Yeats

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” - W.B. Yeats

“For he would be thinking of love

Till the stars had run away

And the shadows eaten the moon.” - W.B. Yeats

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler Yeats

“Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.” - William Butler Yeats

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,

For I would ride with you upon the wind,

Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,

And dance upon the mountains like a flame.” - William Butler Yeats

“A mermaid found a swimming lad,

Picked him up for her own,

Pressed her body to his body,

Laughed; and plunging down

Forgot in cruel happiness

That even lovers drown.” - W.B. Yeats

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.” - W.B. Yeats 

 “But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)” - W.B. Yeats

GREAT QUOTES OF MAYA ANGELOU

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MAYA ANGELOU

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -  Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” - Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.” - Maya Angelou

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” - Maya Angelou

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.)” - Maya Angelou

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” - Maya Angelou

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” - Maya Angelou 

 “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” - Maya Angelou

GREAT QUOTES OF ALFRED TENNYSON

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GREAT QUOTES OF TENNYSON

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost

Than never to have loved at all.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'it will be happier'...” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I am a part of all that I have met.” -  Alfred Tennyson

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” -  Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,

Tears from the depths of some divine despair

Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,

In looking on the happy autumn fields,

And thinking of the days that are no more.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I will drink life to the lees.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” - Alfred Tennyson

“Once in a golden hour

I cast to earth a seed.

Up there came a flower,

The people said, a weed.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson