A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. EliotWhen comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
T. S. EliotBecause I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.
T. S. EliotWhat a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
T. S. Eliot