T. S. Eliot

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

T. S. Eliot

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

T. S. Eliot

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

T. S. Eliot

People find a way in which they can say something.

T. S. Eliot

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

T. S. Eliot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T. S. Eliot

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

T. S. Eliot

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

T. S. Eliot