T. S. Eliot Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Writing, Silence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Book, Breathing

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

• Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Said, Knows

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

• We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, People, Enough

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Reading, Offended

  1935 Religion and Literature.

• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  T. S. Eliot

  Funny, Work, Reading

• I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Children, Wall, Hate

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