T. S. Eliot Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



T. S. Eliot Quotes and Sayings


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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 30
    Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 31
    My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 41
    So the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 42
    Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 43
    Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
  • 50
    The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    This love is silent. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF
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    You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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