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 emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from.
T. S. Eliot

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

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.
T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot

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