T.S. Eliot

"The ghosts of all the past still walk with us."

"In the waiting room of eternity, we learn patience."

"The dance of life requires a partner."

"The only way out is through."

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started."

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

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

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

"The love of all beauty is the love of all things."

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

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

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

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

"We are dying, we are all dying, and dying is not romantic."

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to live the decent life."

"A man may have to face inevitable defeat as he faces inevitable death, by denying and resisting it."

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

"Knowledge is a function of being."

"Every genuine religious experience begins with fear."

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

"Technique is the evidence of seriousness."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

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

"Thought and feeling are not hostile, but complementary."

"Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour."

"The purpose of literature is the exploration of the human condition."

"What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections."

"One cannot value Dante, or the language in which Dante wrote, without some understanding of the European culture into which he was born."