Quotes By T. S. Eliot

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

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

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.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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

So the lover must struggle for words.