Top 70 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

April is the cruellest month.

You are the music while the music lasts.

So the lover must struggle for words.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.