T. S. Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
T. S. Eliot quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 70 we have.
“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.”
“It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.”
“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.”
“And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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