Eliot, T. S.

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."

"Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them."

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

"My name is only an anagram of toilets."

"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." - Dante

"In my beginning is my end." - Four Quartets: 'East Coker'

"[Radio] It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." - quoted in New York Post

"Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity." - Religion and Literature

"Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections."
- The Cocktail Party

"And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
- The Waste Land