T. S. Eliot

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

T. S. Eliot

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

T. S. Eliot

It’s harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law and the sin is in relation to the sinner.

T. S. Eliot

Just when you think you’re on the point of release from loneliness, then loneliness swoops down upon you.

T. S. Eliot

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

T. S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.

T. S. Eliot

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

T. S. Eliot

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

T. S. Eliot

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

T. S. Eliot

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

T. S. Eliot