T. S. Eliot

A cold coming we had of it, just the worst time of the year for a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, the very dead of winter.

T. S. Eliot

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year.

T. S. Eliot

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

T. S. Eliot

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

T. S. Eliot

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after – and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

T. S. Eliot

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

T. S. Eliot

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

T. S. Eliot

A people without history is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern of timeless moments.

T. S. Eliot

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. The poetry does not matter.

T. S. Eliot

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

T. S. Eliot