You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. ELIOTYou are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. ELIOTThis is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. ELIOTWhere is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. ELIOTSometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
T. S. ELIOTAn election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. ELIOTFor I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. ELIOTLove is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
T. S. ELIOTTime present and time past are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
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. ELIOTFor last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
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. 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. ELIOTPeople to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. ELIOTFootfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T. S. ELIOTWhere 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. ELIOTThere is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T. S. ELIOT