Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Being

Thomas Stearns Eliot English poet, dramatist and literary critic

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it. "

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about being