T. S. Eliot
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”
“At the still point of the turning world... there is only the dance.”
“In my end is my beginning.”
“Old men ought to be explorers.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“Home is where one starts from.”
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
“Only through time time is conquered.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end / And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”
“We had the experience but missed the meaning.”
“Not the intense moment isolated, with no before and after, but a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
“In my beginning is my end.”
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.”
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”