813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.