Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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.

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.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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.'

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

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

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.