Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all… — 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
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom… — 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
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — 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
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