813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.

Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.

Old men ought to be explorers.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.