T. S. Eliot

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.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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

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

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.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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

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.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

In my beginning is my end.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

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.

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

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

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