The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
More Quotes from T. S. Eliot:
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.T. S. Eliot
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
T. S. Eliot
I should be glad of another death.
T. S. Eliot
So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
She smooths the hair of the grass.
T. S. Eliot
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
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