T. S. Eliot Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• 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

• What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

  T. S. Eliot

  Errors, Self, Judging

• Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Editors, Criticism

  "Selected Essays".

• Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

  T. S. Eliot

  Race, Creative, Mind

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

• [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

  T. S. Eliot

  Land, Honor, Criticism

  Quoted in The Waste Land, ed. Valerie Eliot (1971)

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