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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.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot
Religion, Literature, Littles
"A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry" (1928)

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

T. S. Eliot
Respect, Library, Literature

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

T. S. Eliot
Catholic, Literature, Classicists

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.

T. S. Eliot
Poetry, Literature, Language

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.

T. S. Eliot
Greatness, Literature, Determined
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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