Quotes By T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.