“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated in order to be enjoyed. Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And a hundred visions and revisions” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
