T. S. Eliot

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

What 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.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

In my end is my beginning.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.

Where 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?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

The bad poet is usually in the business because he thinks he can.

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.

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree Are of equal duration.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

The remark of the hostess, 'How young you look!' has lost its terrors for me; I do not mind now if people think me no longer young.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn.

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless.