“Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones — In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs — he has eight or nine clubs,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“We have therefore to inquire what there is about Machiavelli to impress the mind of Europe so prodigiously and so curiously, and why the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods.… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“…Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose…” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share
