813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.