The quotations of

T. S. Eliot

US-British poet

1888–1965

49 quotes, most often on Poetry, Life & Death and Courage. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
The Waste Land (1922)In context
- Courage
- Risk
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Choruses from The Rock (1934), I
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Forgiveness
- Knowledge
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
- Prayer
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 104In context
- Talking
Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Ash-Wednesday (1930), VIn context
- Talking
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)
- Animals
- Comedy
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Lines 129 ff.In context
I feel that there is something in having passed one’s childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not.
Letter to Marquis Childs quoted in St. Louis Post Dispatch (15 October 1930) and in the address “American Literature and the American Language” delivered at Washington University (9 June 1953) published in Washington University Studies, New Series …
- Youth
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)In context
- Life & Death
- Time
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)In context
- Age
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Nature
- Time
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Fear
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
The Hollow Men (1925)In context
- Ideas
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
Ash-Wednesday (1930), IIn context
- Age
- Hope

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