It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
T. S. Eliot Quotations
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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
We shall never cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go.
This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.