T. S. Eliot

The chief use of the 'literary' journal is to provide a forum for the discussion of ideas.

One of the most important things that can happen to a writer is to be taken seriously.

The dead are to be respected, but not worshipped.

The true artist is a man who has nothing to say.

What 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.

The human race cannot stand too much reality.

We are not here to be happy, but to be useful.

The world is a place of suffering, and we are all condemned to it.

The only way to escape the prison of the self is to love another.

The greatest sin is to be unaware of one's own sin.

The purpose of life is to find your purpose.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.