T.S. Eliot

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time."

"There will be time to murder and create."

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

"Do I dare disturb the universe?"

"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future."

"The waste land of a literary imagination."

"Poetry is the most perfect expression of human experience."

"In my end is my beginning."

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning."

"Genuine laughter is the music of the soul."

"The greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."

"A man who works, works. A man who rests, rests."

"Preparation for love is a place where all people come to die."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation."

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

"The most interesting English surnames are those that have a geographical origin."

"I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."

"April is the cruelest month."

"All knowledge is in poetry, all science is in poetry."

"We exist to create new forms of beauty."

"Peace can be made only by those who make war look small by comparison."

"The love of the good comes to us from admiring excellence."

"Every reader is free to interpret according to his ability and sensibility."

"Success is relative: the more success, the more false friends."

"A poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings."

"We know more than we can tell."

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

"In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning."

"The music of thought and the thought of music are one."