813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.