T S Eliot Quotes
'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.'
'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.'
'All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.'
'Business today consists in persuading crowds.'
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.'
'Humankind cannot bear very much reality.'
'I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.'
'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'
'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'
'If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?'
'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'
'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.'
'It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.'
'It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.'
'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.'
'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.'
'Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.'
'There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.'
Died in London
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