Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot

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

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

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

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

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

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

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

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

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot

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

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

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

This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot

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