Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image