T. S. Eliot

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

T. S. Eliot

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

T. S. Eliot

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

T. S. Eliot

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

T. S. Eliot

I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

T. S. Eliot

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

T. S. Eliot

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T. S. Eliot