The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTThe purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. ELIOTHumor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. ELIOTDistracted from distraction by distraction
T. S. ELIOTIt’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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. ELIOTIf you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. ELIOTWe had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T. S. ELIOTWe don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. ELIOTHumankind cannot bear very much reality.
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. 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. ELIOTThis is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
T. S. ELIOTI read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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. ELIOTSuccess is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. ELIOTSome editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. ELIOT