T.S. Eliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

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?

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.