T.S. Eliot

"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good."

"Hell is oneself, hell is alone."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Someone said 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."

"The life of one man is a chaos of delight and madness."

"Success is relative: it is what we can make of the mess we have been given."

"We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men."

"All knowledge is here and nowhere else."

"There will be time to murder and create."

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

"For I have known them all already, known them all."

"In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo."

"Do not ask 'What is it?' Do not press down to see where the roots clutch."

"Every moment in the past determines the future."

"The world turns and the world spins, the wheel turns and the wheel spins."

"Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."

"Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden."

"Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."

"The only way to do is to do."

"What we call the 'beginning' is often the end."

"Do not say anything that you might regret."

"We fear the unknown."

"The strength of friendship lies in its honesty."

"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."

"Struggle toward the light, through the darkness."

"The purpose of any group must be the transmission of value."

"Music and meaning are allied."

"Faith is tested by tribulation."

"The individual talent grows from the tradition."