T. S. Eliot Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Careers, May

• No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

  T. S. Eliot

  Appreciation, Art, Poet

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

  T. S. Eliot

  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Humiliation

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.348, Faber & Faber

• There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Experience, Quartets, Seems

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Judging, Tests, Novelty

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

• A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Long, Environmental

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