The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
- T. S. Eliot
More Quotes By T. S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications.
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s... If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms... It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is... To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough... Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?... Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the... Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where... April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull... Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
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