813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Teach us to care and not to care

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

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.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny...

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.