Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Quote by T S Eliot

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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...

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

So the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

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

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?

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...

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...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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...

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

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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than...

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the...

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the...

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which...

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which...