T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot), 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic Quotes
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- That is a life.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, nor to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
Our emotions are only "incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age, one stands still and stagnates.
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
The book [Future of an Illusion] testifies to the fact that the genius of experimental science is not necessarily joined with the genius of logic or generalizing power.