813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.