813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

We must learn to suffer more.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.

That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and penetrate; / Expert beyond experience.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.