813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

In the end is my beginning.

A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

I am no prophet-and here's no great matter.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?