86 Quotations by T. S. Eliot
- 1. A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, ...
- 2. A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
- 3. All cases are unique and very similar to others.
- 4. An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better ...
- 5. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolongi ...
- 6. And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication o ...
- 7. April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirrin ...
- 8. Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
- 9. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. N ...
- 10. Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
- 11. Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorati ...
- 12. Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened ...
- 13. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of man ...
- 14. For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
- 15. Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
- 16. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- 17. Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...
- 18. Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca ...
- 19. Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
- 20. Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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