813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors; 180 Departed, have left no addresses.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.

Let me be no nearer In death’s dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer – Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom.

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands”;.

It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question.