T. S. Eliot Quotes

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T. S. Eliot

Profession : Poet

Birth : September 26, 1888

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

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.

T. S. Eliot

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words.

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.

T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot