T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

Communication, Fire, Living

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

Progress, Artist, Extinction

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

Real, Point, View

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot

Thought, Wait, Ready

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

Writers, Failed, Editors

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.
T. S. Eliot

Different, Year, Emotions

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

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
T. S. Eliot

Respect, Person, Enough

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

Time, Poetry, Help

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

Important, Write, Possible

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

Him, Old, Forsaken

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

Religion, Politics, Literature

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

Time, Space, Objects

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot

Tell, Until, Public

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

Done, After, Funeral

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

Year, Tiger, Devours

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
T. S. Eliot

Shall, Temple, Homes

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

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 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

Business, Poetry, Feelings

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26, 1888

Died: January 4, 1965

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