T. S. Eliot

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

T. S. Eliot

politics

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

religion

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

T. S. Eliot

religion

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

T. S. Eliot

respect

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

time

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

T. S. Eliot

time

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

time

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

T. S. Eliot

time

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

T. S. Eliot

time

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

time

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