813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death.

Put on a face to meet the faces that you meet – T S Eliot – used in The Book Of Peach.

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we know we started and know the place for the first time.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one’s age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

We learn what poetry is – if we ever learn – by reading it.

Whatever you do, don’t whimper, but take the consequences.

Why speak of love? We were used to each other.