813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.