T.S. Eliot, (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965):
All cases are unique, and very similar to others.
And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their
only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”
Atheism is often merely a variety of Christianity.
Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
Half of the harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important.
Hold tight, hold tight, we must insist that the world is what we have always taken it to be.
Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
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.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
In the case of many poets, the most important thing for them to do is to write as little as possible.
It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are.
Neither way is better.
Both ways are necessary. It is also necessary
To
make a choice between them.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Success is relative; it is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for
the wrong reason.
The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a skeptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Those you say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
We had the experience but missed the meaning.
We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely
projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape
to. One is always alone.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have
lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The
cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
You are the music while the music lasts.
You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it.
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