I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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I don't believ e one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T.S. Eliot

We might remind ourselves that criticism is asinevita ble as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
T.S. Eliot

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said,liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and
peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival of culture. One needs the enemy.
T.S. Eliot

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
T.S. Eliot

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T.S. Eliot

There is no method but to be very inteligent.
T.S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T.S. Eliot

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