Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

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

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

In my beginning is my end.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

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.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.