T.S. Eliot Chrestomathy: On Poetry and Poets Edition

T.S. Eliot's On Poetry and Poets is turning out to be a very insightful book. I put together a list of really insightful passages from the first chapter, "The Social Function of Poetry,"  for your edification.

T.S. Eliot on the decline of religious sensibility

I can relate to what T.S. Eliot said about foreign languages

T.S. Eliot on the Greatest Poets' Influence of Language

T.S. Eliot on Poets Having Small Audiences

T.S. Eliot on Great Poets

T.S. Eliot on Emotion and Feeling in Poetry

T.S. Eliot: "no art is more stubbornly national than poetry"

T.S. Eliot: Every people should have its own poetry

T.S. Eliot on What Poets Have to Give Besides Pleasure

T.S. Eliot on Poetry with Views