813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.