813 Quotes by T. S. Eliot

No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

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.

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.