Quotes: T. S. Eliot

"Old men ought to be explorers

Here or there does not matter

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and empty desolation,

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning." 

                            T.S. Eliot. Four Quartets: East Coker V excerpt

 –– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via: Sketchbook A (oatmeal), 2015, p. 10

Quotes: T.S. Eliot

"the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past."

–– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

Source: T.S. Eliot. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism.

via Sketchbook 17, 2011, p. 9

Quotes 371: T.S. Eliot

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

 –– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 21

Quotes 337: T.S. Eliot

"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."

–– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via Sketchbook 9, 2009, p. 55 

Quotes: Eliot + Emerson

"In order to arrive at what you do not know
    You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
    You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
    You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not."
-- T.S. Eliot, East Coker, part 3

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson