T. S. Eliot

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career…

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and…

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is…

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the…

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living…

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be…

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life…

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its…

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the…

I will show you fear in a handful of dust…

This love is silent…

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and…

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute…

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths…

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have…