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Facts about T. S. Eliot SummaryT. S. Eliot was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between September 26, 1888 and January 4, 1965.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac libra, who is known for Balance, Justice, Truth, Beauty, Perfection. Our collection contains 56 quotes who is written / told by S. Eliot, under the main topic Poetry.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Diem, Margaret Lee Runbeck, Joe Namath, Adlai Stevenson, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Thornton Wilder, Casey Stengel, Vince Lombardi, Aldous Huxley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Øystein Stray Spetalen Famous quotes by T. S. Eliot (56)  "There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him"
"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know"
"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from"
"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"
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion"
"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all"
"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious"
"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"
"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly"
"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"
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words"
"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"
"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""
"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"
"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"
"For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting"
"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"
"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"
"Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express"
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness"
"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"
"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance"
"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"
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