813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.

The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and hat's an experience of incalculable value.

It is worth dying to find out what life is.

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning together.