813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names...

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.