45 T. S. Eliot Quotes for You to Enjoy

T. S. Eliot

American Poet

Born: Sep 26, 1888

Died: Jan 4, 1965

Knowledge Life Poet Time Will You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings

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. T. S. Eliot

Love Hope Faith Waiting Wrong Thing Would Would-Be Wrong Thing

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot

Year He New Tiger Springs New Year Us

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. T. S. Eliot

Every Difficulties Our Must Somehow Permanent Always Dealt Moment

In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot

Beginning End

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

Life Time Game Value Poet Nothing Must Poetry He Written Feel Messed Messed Up Sure Permanent Always His Up Quite May Mug Ever Wasted Things Fundamentally Career Honest

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot

Important Possible Poets Write Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Little Thing

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot

Some Writers Failed Most Editors

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot

Personality Progress Self-Sacrifice Artist Extinction

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 Too Much Too Our Know Substitute Literature Little Much Convinced

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. T. S. Eliot

Trouble Down Greatest Up Up And Down Getting Curtain

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

Politics Religion Am Literature

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. T. S. Eliot

Poet Ought Bad Unconscious He Where Conscious

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.' T. S. Eliot

You Human Being Mother Hatred Pour Young Baby Out Fellow Call Dear Hear Scorn Cup Human Being Fullest Desire Drain

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. T. S. Eliot

Emotions Will Poet Year Must Seek He New Beyond Alter His Survive Any Different Influences Literary Different Emotions To Survive Express

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