T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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.

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.

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

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.