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 on age
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. T. S. Eliot on art
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 on best
Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot on business
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 on business
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T. S. Eliot on communication
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot on death
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 on experience
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. T. S. Eliot on faith
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot on fear
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 on good
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 on graduation
Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot on home
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot on hope
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. T. S. Eliot on hope
There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot on intelligence
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot on knowledge
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 on knowledge
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 on knowledge
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 on knowledge