“Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
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Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?”
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.”
“War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”
“Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.”
Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962
“A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.”
Source: Christianity and Culture
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
Source: The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922
“Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”
Source: Selected essays
“Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses
Source: Selected essays
“The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.”
Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.”
“You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot