Thomas Stearns Eliot quotes

“Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. ”

— Thomas Stearns 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. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“ The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“There is no method but to be very intelligent. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“ Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot