T. S. Eliot Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

  T. S. Eliot

  Blood, Ink, Purpose

• 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

  Religion, Literature, Littles

  "A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  T. S. Eliot

  Respect, Library, Literature

• Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Life, Romantic

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Literature, Determined

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Writing, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

• Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

  T. S. Eliot

  Poetry, Literature, Language

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Catholic, Literature, Classicists

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