813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

So the lover must struggle for words.

We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow.

This form, this face, this life living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me resign my life for this life, my speech for that unspoken, the awakened, lips parted, the hope, the new ships.

Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.