April is the cruellest month.

Quote by T S Eliot

Topics: T S Eliot Quotes

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

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.

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

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...

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?

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career,...

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths;...