T. S. Eliot Quotes About Literature
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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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.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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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.
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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.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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