T. S. Eliot Quotes And Sayings

The Nobel Is A Ticket To One's Own Funeral. No One Has Ever Done Anything After He Got It.

Playwriting Gets Into Your Blood And You Can't Stop It. At Least Not Until The Producers Or The Public Tell You To.

Our High Respect For A Well Read Person Is Praise Enough For Literature.

The Most Important Thing For Poets To Do Is To Write As Little As Possible.

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.

There Is No Method But To Be Very Intelligent.

I Said To My Soul, Be Still, And Wait Without Hope, For Hope Would Be Hope For The Wrong Thing.

The Last Thing One Discovers In Composing A Work Is What To Put First.

Art Never Improves, But... The Material Of Art Is Never Quite The Same.

The Bad Poet Is Usually Unconscious Where He Ought To Be Conscious, And Conscious Where He Ought To Be Unconscious.

The Progress Of An Artist Is A Continual Self-sacrifice, A Continual Extinction Of Personality.

Where There Is No Temple There Shall Be No Homes.

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.

I Am An Anglo-catholic In Religion, A Classicist In Literature And A Royalist In Politics.

Business Today Consists In Persuading Crowds.

In My Beginning Is My End.

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.

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.

This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Whimper.

Our Difficulties Of The Moment Must Always Be Dealt With Somehow, But Our Permanent Difficulties Are Difficulties Of Every Moment.