T. S. Eliot

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

T. S. Eliot

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

T. S. Eliot

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

T. S. Eliot

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

T. S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

T. S. Eliot

The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

T. S. Eliot

The true church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

T. S. Eliot

The work of creation is never without travail.

T. S. Eliot

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot