” 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. “
” 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. “
” As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. “
” A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good. “
” Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. “
All 6 T. S. Eliot Quotes about Time in picture
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