T.S. Eliot

"Distracted from distraction by distraction."

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

"Do I dare disturb the universe?"

"The end is where we start from."

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

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice."

"April is the cruelest month."

"There is no greater treason than to do the right deed for the wrong reason."

"Knowledge is increased by experience and reflection."

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

"How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot with his features of clerical cut."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

"The present moment is all we truly possess."

"To do just the right thing at just the right time."

"We are the hollow men."

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

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

"The years that with beast and beauty held the years."

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

"A man is not necessarily wicked because he does not accept prevailing opinions."

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."

"There will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces."

"Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the well."

"The awful daring of a moment's surrender."

"In my beginning is my end."

"It is necessary to go back, go back many years."

"To arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance."