T. S. Eliot Quotes
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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
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To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural - but little developed - aptitude for seriousness.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
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Who is the third who walks always beside you When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you
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In my beginning is my end.
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Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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I am no prophet - and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.