813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it.’

With a poem you can say ‘I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.’

For he will do As he do do And there’s no doing anything about it!

The hippopotamus’s day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He’s always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he’s at home, then he’d like to get about.

Only through time time is conquered.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.