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 life
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 love
You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot on music
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 on poetry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot on poetry
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 on poetry
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 on poetry
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot on poetry
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 poetry
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot on politics
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 on religion
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot on religion
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T. S. Eliot on respect
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 on time
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 on time
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 on time
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 on time
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 time
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot on time