Quotes by T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

April is the cruellest month.

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words.

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot

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

#T S Eliot