T. S. Eliot

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

T. S. Eliot

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

T. S. Eliot

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

T. S. Eliot

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

T. S. Eliot

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

T. S. Eliot

Birth, and copulation, and death; that’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot

Books. Cats. Life is good.

T. S. Eliot

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

T. S. Eliot

Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.

T. S. Eliot