T. S. Eliot Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”

“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.”

“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.”

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”

“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”

“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.”

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”

“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.”

“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.'”

“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”