813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

The suburban evening was grey and yellow on Sunday; the gardens of the small houses to left and right were rank with ivy and tall grass and lilac bushes; the tropical South London verdure was dusty above and mouldy below; the tepid air swarmed with flies. Eeldrop, at the window, welcomed the smoky smell of lilac, the gramaphones, the choir of the Baptist chapel, and the sight of three small girls playing cards on the steps of the police station.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after – and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause.

The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past’s awareness of itself cannot show.

I can connect Nothing with nothing.

I have saved this afternoon for you.