Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Home is where one starts from.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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.