Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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

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.

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

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.