- And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. T. S. Eliot »
- Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. T. S. Eliot »
- April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers. T. S. Eliot »
- Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. T. S. Eliot »
- Humankind cannot stand very much reality. T. S. Eliot »
- Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot »
- I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot »
- Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot »
- Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S. Eliot »
- Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot »
- 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. T. S. Eliot »
- Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot »
- The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot »
- The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. T. S. Eliot »
- This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot »
- We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. T. S. Eliot »
- We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. 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 »
- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information T. S. Eliot »
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