Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. — 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
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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 each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.jpg)
