T. S. Eliot

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”

“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”

“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”