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.
T. S. ELIOTWe 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.
T. S. ELIOTWhat is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
T. S. ELIOTWe had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T. S. ELIOTDo I dare Disturb the universe?
T. S. ELIOTNo one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. ELIOTWe have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.
T. S. ELIOTThe purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTTelevision is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. ELIOTThe visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T. S. ELIOTExcept for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. ELIOTImmature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. ELIOTAnxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. ELIOTEvery 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.
T. S. ELIOTOf lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
T. S. ELIOTThese fragments I have shored against my ruins
T. S. ELIOTWhere does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T. S. ELIOT