The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit… — 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
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
If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? — 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)
