About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

— T.S. Eliot

A Christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

— T.S. Eliot

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

— T.S. Eliot

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

— T.S. Eliot

A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.

— T.S. Eliot

And right action is freedom from past and future also. For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages

— T.S. Eliot

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

— T.S. Eliot

And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worthwhile, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -

— T.S. Eliot

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

— T.S. Eliot

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

— T.S. Eliot