The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey:… — 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