T. S. Eliot Quotes About Time
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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.
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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.
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Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
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Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
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A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Hurry up, please, its time.
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There will be time to murder and create.
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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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