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. -T. S. Eliot Age
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. -T. S. Eliot Knowledge
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. -T. S. Eliot Poetry
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot Time
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. -T. S. Eliot Poetry
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot Knowledge
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. -T. S. Eliot Religion
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -T. S. Eliot Poetry
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot Wisdom
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. -T. S. Eliot Time
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. -T. S. Eliot Business
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. -T. S. Eliot Faith
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. -T. S. Eliot Hope
