Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

I gotta use words to talk to you.