All T. S. Eliot Quotes
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. Eliot
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot
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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
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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