Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
57 quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot - english poet, dramatist and literary critic
Also called: T. S. Eliot.
Was born on 26 sep 1888.
Died on 04 jan 1965, at 76 years old.
Died on 04 jan 1965, at 76 years old.
Origin country: United States
Biography: He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, good, good luck, time
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, character, knowledge
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about truth, public, character
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about politics, interest, peace
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, silence, books, being
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, literary critic, emotions, poets
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art, magic
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, waste, value, games, career, poets, nothing, things, time, life
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about experience, absolute
Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is understood.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry
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.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about bad, interest, world, people
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about age, olderness, life
