Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
-- T. S. Eliot
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
-- T. S. Eliot
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?
-- T. S. Eliot
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
-- T. S. Eliot
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
-- T. S. Eliot
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
-- T. S. Eliot
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?
-- T. S. Eliot
They speak better than they know, and beyond your understanding.
They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer.
They know and do not know, that action is suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the agent suffer
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed
In an eternal action, an eternal patience.
To which all must consent that it may be willed
And which all must suffer that they may will it,
That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action
And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still
Be forever still.
-- T. S. Eliot
Men learn little from others' experience.
But in the life of one man, never
The same time returns. Sever
The cord, shed the scale. Only
The fool, fixed in his folly, may think
He can turn the wheel on which he turns
-- T. S. Eliot
All things become less real, man passes
From unreality to unreality.
-- T. S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
-- T. S. Eliot
I don't belong to any generation.
-- T. S. Eliot
Thus with most careful devotion
Thus with precise attention
To detail, interfering preperation
Of that which is already prepared
Men tighten the knot of confusion
Into perfect misunderstanding
-- T. S. Eliot
All that I can hope to make you understand
Is only events: not what has happened.
And people to whom nothing has ever happened
Cannot understand the unimportance of events.
-- T. S. Eliot
The circle of our understanding
Is a very restricted area.
Except for a limited number
Of strictly practical purposes
We do not know what we are doing;
And even then, when you think of it,
We do not know much about thinking.
-- T. S. Eliot
For some are sane and some are mad
And some are good and some are bad
And some are better, some are worse
-- T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T. S. Eliot
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
-- T. S. Eliot
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot
Half 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. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns.
-- T. S. Eliot
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