Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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.

The journey not the arrival matters.

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.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.