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Literature Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
- Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
- I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
- Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
- The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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