Poetry Quote by T.S. Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“April is the cruelest month, breeding”

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire”

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?”

“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“For I am bound with fleshly bands,”

“What a strange thing!”

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire”

“All the rest is silence”

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said.”

“How long your closet held a whiff of you,”