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All Quotes by author - T. S. Eliot

" 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. "

" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "

" Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" April is the cruellest month. "

" Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. "

" 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. "

" A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. "

" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "

" 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. "

" Home is where one starts from. "

" Humankind cannot bear very much reality. "

" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

" 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. "

" If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? "

" 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.' "

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

" I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "

" In my beginning is my end. "

" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "

" 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. "

" It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. "

" It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. "

" It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. "

" I will show you fear in a handful of dust. "

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