813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

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

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

There will be time to murder and create.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'