It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOTIt’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOTI am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
T. S. ELIOTI can connect Nothing with nothing
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. ELIOTFor us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T. S. ELIOTThis is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
T. S. ELIOTOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. ELIOTBooks. Cats. Life is good.
T. S. ELIOTApril is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
T. S. ELIOTThe purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTSometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
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. 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. ELIOTThese fragments I have shored against my ruins
T. S. ELIOTSo I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
T. S. ELIOT