813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!