“Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“the communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living"--The Little Gidding” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued… — 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
