813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.