T. S. Eliot Quotes

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"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."

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"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."

"There is no method but to be very intelligent."