Thomas Stearns Eliot

To hear the latest Pole transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.

War is not a life it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

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.

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.

No I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

I suppose some editors are failed writers but so are most writers.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

In my beginning is my end.

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter

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.

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree In the cool of the day.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.