T. S. Eliot Quotes

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature, Mature, Poets

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

Silence, After, Write

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot

Negative, Nasty, Narrow

This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Lost

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

Graduation, Knowledge, Cannot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot

Greatest, Wrong, Reason

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

Time, Same, Joke

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

Life, Time, Poetry

April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot

Wise, Until, Rules

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot

Moment, Permanent, Somehow

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

Religion, Literature, Convinced

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

Time, Good, Give

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot

Death, Different, Thought

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

Mother, Human, Young

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot

Bad, Poet, Conscious

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot

Intelligence, Method

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

Nothing, Understand, Cannot

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot

Light, Darkness, Shall

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

Greatest, Down, Getting

So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Words, Lover

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot

Work, Put, Last

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26, 1888

Died: January 4, 1965

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