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

“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“Time present and time past”

“This is the way the world ends”

“I think we are in rats’ alley”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”

“Think neither fear nor courage saves us.”

“229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.”

“I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.”

“I only wrote prose before I met you.”

“Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn”

“What is the colour of Christmas?”

“There’s too much risk in loving,’”