T. S. Eliot

Business today consists in persuading crowds. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#consists #crowds #persuading #today

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." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#being #call #cup #dear #desire

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#beyond #dead #fire #language #living

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#any #beyond #different #different emotions #emotions

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

— T. S. Eliot

#high #literature #our #person #praise

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

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#important thing #little #most #poets #possible

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#forsake #forsaken #him #man #more

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #i am #literature #politics #religion

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

— T. S. Eliot

#only #selves #space #time #world