813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Turn things you’ve always wanted to do, into things you’ve done.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.

With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;.

Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value – a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.