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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock QUOTES

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock QUOTES

1 " I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

2 " that's not what I meant at all... that's not it at all. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

3 " I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

4 " I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

5 " I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

6 " No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be
Am an attendant lord one that will do
To swell a progress start a scene or two
Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool
Deferential glad to be of use
Politic cautious and meticulous
Full of high sentence but a bit obtuse
At times indeed almost ridiculous—
Almost at times the Fool.

I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach
I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us and we drown. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

7 " I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

8 " There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

9 " Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question ...
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit. "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

10 " In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo "

― T.S. Eliot , The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock