⨳ — T.S. ELIOT;
send one for my muse's reaction!
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” “Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” “Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” “There will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.” “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” “You are the music while the music lasts.” “If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” “Books. Cats. Life is good.” “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.” “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” “Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.” “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.” “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” “Humor is also a way of saying something serious.” “This love is silent.” “It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.” “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” “We must learn to suffer more.” “Let us go then, you and I, where the evening is spread out against the sky.” “The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.” “All time is irredeemable.” “Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..” “But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” “I see the eyes but not the tears. This is my affliction.” “Your burden is not to clear your conscience, but to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.” “All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”
