Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it T. S. Eliot More Quotes by T. S. Eliot More Quotes From T. S. Eliot Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. T. S. Eliot burdencracksbreak The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock. T. S. Eliot rocksfailingchurch Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion? T. S. Eliot lonelinesstalkingthinking April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. T. S. Eliot rainspringmemories In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing T. S. Eliot moonlightsinginggrass Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not. T. S. Eliot destinyrunningmeaningful A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole. T. S. Eliot benefitsshouldculture The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. T. S. Eliot maylifethinking Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. T. S. Eliot doneevilpeople Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. T. S. Eliot loveromanticlife In the mountains, there you feel free. T. S. Eliot waste-landmountainfeels Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot creativitycreativehands Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding. T. S. Eliot confusionperfectmen It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny. T. S. Eliot finding-yourselfdestinyrisk So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot generositydancinglight Can we only love T. S. Eliot realdreamlife People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. T. S. Eliot wishwantpeople Every moment is a fresh beginning. T. S. Eliot life-changingsuccessfulinspirational One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest. T. S. Eliot stealing-thingsuniqueart But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. T. S. Eliot disciplinepoliticalrelaxation
