Quotes by Eliot, T. S.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. >>

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, >>

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water >>

Quotations about Literature

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in ou >>

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.

Eliot, T. S.