813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended