I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share
