Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Quote by TS Eliot

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to...

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...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

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

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

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

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

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

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that...

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.