“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon… — 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… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“…Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — 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… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic,… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The child wonders at the Christmas Tree: Let him continue in the spirit of wonder At the Feast as an event not… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.… — 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
