T. S. Eliot Quotes :
Art never improves, but… the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
T. S. Eliot
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
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.
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.
T. S. Eliot
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
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
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.
T. S. Eliot
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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 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
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
T. S. Eliot
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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.
T. S. Eliot
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
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.
T. S. Eliot
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot