T. S. Eliot Quotes
So the lover must struggle for words. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. 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. The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. 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. The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. There is no method but to be very intelligent. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. This love is silent. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. 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.
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