813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?