I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot - In Old Age
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot - In Anger
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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
- Alexander Eliot - In Art
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
- T. S. Eliot - In Art
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
- T. S. Eliot - In Love
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
- George Eliot - In Love
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You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot - In Music
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
- T. S. Eliot - In Poetry
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot - In Poetry
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- T. S. Eliot - In Politics
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