T.S. Eliot

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"Between the idea and the reality falls the Shadow."

"Genuine emotion is dynamic, not static."

"The attempt to concentrate on anything else was utterly useless."

"Someone said: the dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did."

"Tradition is a matter of much wider significance."

"It is only through time that time is conquered."

"Only the fool would fail to believe in the supernatural."

"Self-consciousness is the curse of the age."

"Memory and desire churn upon the winter rain."

"The dance along the artery of the nation."

"We are all broken pieces of the greater whole."

"To be conscious is not to be in time."

"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."

"Thought is a form of disease."

"Who is the third who walks always beside you?"

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something."

"Fear in a handful of dust."

"Shall I set my lands in order?"

"The wounded surgeon plies the steel."

"In the deserts of the heart, let the healing fountain start."

"We only live, only suspire, consumed by either fire or fire."

"Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing."

"At the still point of the turning world."

"All shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."

"The world is a difficult and dangerous place to be."

"In the beginning is the Word, and the Word is with us still."

"The river is within us, the sea is all about us."

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