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

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot in The Rock
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets
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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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