“Business today consists in persuading crowds.”
Business
“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by T. S. Eliot
“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.”
Business“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
Good“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.”
Best“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
Hope“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
Respect“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
Knowledge“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”
Christmas“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.”
Age“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
Art“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
Poetry“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
Work“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
Knowledge“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
Intelligence“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.”
Time“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
Politics“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
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?”
Knowledge“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.”
Poetry“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.”
Faith