813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

Art is the escape from personality.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.

and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.