More Quotes by T. S. Eliot
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
Books. Cats. Life is good.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Whatever 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.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
