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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. - T.S. Eliot

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. - T.S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. - T.S. Eliot

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

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

Business today consists in persuading crowds. - T.S. Eliot

There is no method but to be very intelligent. - T.S. Eliot

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. - T.S. Eliot

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. - T.S. Eliot

In my beginning is my end. - T.S. Eliot

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

This love is silent. - T.S. Eliot

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. - T.S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T.S. Eliot

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. - T.S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. - T.S. Eliot

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

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. - T.S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? - T.S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T.S. Eliot

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