Where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? — T.S. Eliot
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love — T.S. Eliot
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. — T.S. Eliot
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath — T.S. Eliot
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced.. — T.S. Eliot
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being. — T.S. Eliot
I am an anglo-catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T.S. Eliot
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T.S. Eliot
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. — T.S. Eliot
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T.S. Eliot
The nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T.S. Eliot