T. S. Eliot

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

— T. S. Eliot

#gets #into #least #playwriting #producers

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#breath #inadequate #like #lover #must

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#hope #love #thing #waiting #would

You are the music while the music lasts. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#lasts #while #you

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never

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

#call #end #make #often #start

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#all things #deceitful #deliver #desperately #excellent

Home is where one starts from. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#starts #where

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#best #cease #character #facts #part

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm