Quotes By T. S. Eliot

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.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

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

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

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.