I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Quote by T S Eliot

Topics: Age Quotes

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.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

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...

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...

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...

In my beginning is my end.

In my beginning is my end.

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...

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

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

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the...

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper,...

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.

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...

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,...

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the...

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 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...

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...

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

April is the cruellest month.

April is the cruellest month.