Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
– T. S. Eliot
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
– T. S. Eliot
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.
– T. S. Eliot
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
– T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
– T. S. Eliot
This is how the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper.
– T. S. Eliot
Your burden is not to clear your conscience but to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.
– T. S. Eliot
The journey, not the arrival matters.
– T. S. Eliot
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are.
– T. S. Eliot
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
– T. S. Eliot
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
– T. S. Eliot
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
– T. S. Eliot
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
– T. S. Eliot
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of good and evil.
– T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started,
And know the place for the first time.
– T. S. Eliot
What life have you, if you have not life together?
– T. S. Eliot
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
– T. S. Eliot
It is a test, a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively, that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
– T. S. Eliot
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
– T. S. Eliot
There’s no vocabulary for love within a family,
love that’s lived in but not looked at,
love within the light of which all else is seen,
the love within which all other love finds speech.
This love is silent.
– T. S. Eliot
The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
– T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
– T. S. Eliot
Those who trust us educate us.
– T. S. Eliot
We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
– T. S. Eliot
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
– T. S. Eliot
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
– T. S. Eliot
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
– T. S. Eliot
Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
– T. S. Eliot
We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
– T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
– T. S. Eliot
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
– T. S. Eliot
Every moment is a fresh beginning.
– T. S. Eliot
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.
– T. S. Eliot
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
– T. S. Eliot