Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake. T. S. Eliot aim sake culture Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot organized-life too-much-information knowledge The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot lasts deeds temptation At the still point, there the dance is. T. S. Eliot scene dance beautiful It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. T. S. Eliot might men life Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. T. S. Eliot difficulty permanent moments The darkness declares the glory of light. T. S. Eliot glory light darkness I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. T. S. Eliot wall hate children The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself. T. S. Eliot curious risk should All time is unreedemable. T. S. Eliot all-time There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. T. S. Eliot may doors way Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. T. S. Eliot constant sensible world I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. T. S. Eliot remarkable cat believe If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot tough-times hard-times adversity Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. T. S. Eliot epitaph phrases ends Hurry up, please, its time. T. S. Eliot please time Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth. T. S. Eliot age men mean Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning. T. S. Eliot language civilization order We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational. T. S. Eliot passion emotional justice It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary. T. S. Eliot agony desire thinking
