224 Quotes by T.S. Eliot

One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Where is the wisdom?We lost in knowledgeWhere is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse

Em uma peça de Shakespeare, podemos obter vários graus de significado. Para o público mais simples há a trama; para os mais instruídos, o caráter e o conflito dos personagens; para o mais literário, as palavras e as frases; para os dotados de maior sensibilidade musical, o ritmo, e para os de maior sensibilidade e capacidade de entender, um significado que se revela gradualmente.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

What you've been living on is an image of CeliaWhich you made for yourself, to meet your own needs.