T.S. Eliot

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.





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





My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.



Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion,
but an escape from emotion;
it is not the expression of personality,
but an escape from personality.
But, of course,
only those who have personality and emotions
know what it means to want to escape from these things.






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.








The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.






The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.








This love is silent.