Quotes by : T. S. Eliot

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them....

What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place.

The young feel tired at the end of an action The old at the beginning.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the....

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.....

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.....

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better a little better.....