224 Quotes by T.S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

When the short day is brightest, / with frost and fire, / The brief sun flames the ice, / on pond and ditches, / In windless cold that is the heart's heat.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back / Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits / Like a taxi throbbing waiting.

The basis of drama is any form or rhythm imposed upon the world of action.

A people without history. / Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern / Of timeless moments. So while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and England.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.