Quote by T.S. Eliot
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. - T.S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

Other quotes by T.S. Eliot

Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

Category:
Perspective
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

Category:
Writing

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

Category:
Writing

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

Category:
Writing

The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G. I. Gurdjieff

Category:
Knowledge

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty. – Edward Witten

Category:
Beauty

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven. – Rick Warren

Category:
Home

My heart is so light that its amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. Its hysterically funny. I am very light. – Linda Hamilton

Category:
amazing