T.S. Eliot's quote

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century." Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.

T. S. 엘리엇 (ko)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. The Waste Land

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. Four Quartets

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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. The Cocktail Party

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

You are the music while the music lasts.

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.

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?

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.