224 Quotes by T.S. Eliot

Whatever you have learned, Harry, you must rememberThat there is always more: we cannot rest in beingThe impatient spectators of malice or stupidity.We must try to penetrate the other private worldsOf make-believe and fear. To rest in our own sufferingIs evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever.

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..

For good and ill deeds belong to a man alone, when he stands alone on the other side of death,But here upon earth you have the reward of the good and ill that was done by those who have gone before you.And all that is ill you may repair if you walk together in humble repentance, expiating the sins of your fathers;And all that was good you must fight to keep with hearts as devoted as those of your fathers who fought to gain it.

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.