Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T. S. ELIOTTime for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T. S. ELIOTIn a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T. S. ELIOTI have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. ELIOTThe very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
T. S. ELIOTMen dislike being awakened from their death in life.
T. S. ELIOTWe must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
T. S. ELIOTThe purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTOnly by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
T. S. ELIOTAnxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. ELIOTWhatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. ELIOTWhat 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. ELIOTOf lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
T. S. ELIOTDo I dare Disturb the universe?
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T. S. ELIOTIf you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. ELIOTIf you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. ELIOT