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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Language
Await
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Risk
Possibly
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Whimper
Bang
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Useful
Beautiful
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Possible
Enough
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Existence
Affords
Evidence
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Intentions
World
Books. Cats. Life is good.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Books
Life
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Communicate
Genuine
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Humankind
Reality
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Head
Over
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Handful
Dust
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Face
Time
You are the music while the music lasts.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Music
Lasts
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Strength
Impose
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Memory
Passage
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Whatever
Feel
For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Already
Measured
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Each
Pretend
Remember
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
― T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Stillness
Dancing
Faith