Quotes

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Business today consists in persuading crowds.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

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

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

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

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“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.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

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

“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

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.” Clint Eastwood

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.” Clint Eastwood

“I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.” Clint Eastwood

“Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” Clint Eastwood

“I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.” Clint Eastwood