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.

Quote by T S Eliot

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one...

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one...

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the...