T. S. Eliot

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

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

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.