Poetry Quote by T.S. Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We are the hollow men”

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”

“Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

“And would it have been worth it, after all,”

“This is the way the world ends”

“في غُرَفِ العمليات ..”

“Hey you, dragging the halo-”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”

“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

“. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”

“Cuando vayamos al mar”