Quotes by T. S. Eliot

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

“We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine”

“You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupati...”

“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”

“This love is silent.”

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassu...”

“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”

“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”

“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”

“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

“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.”

“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”

“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?”

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”