T.S. Eliot

"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these."

"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."

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

"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."

"Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."

"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."

"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."

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

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

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"

"LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light."

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

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."

"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."

"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."

"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."