A biography for T. S. Eliothasn’t been written yet.
“הסתגל נא לחיות עם הטיפש שהוא אתה.”
“כל רגע הוא התחלה חדשה.”
“אם יש לך אומץ, קיימת דרך אחרת.”
“לֹּא אוּכַל לִשְׁתּוֹת מִן הַמָּקוֹם שָׁם פּוֹרְחִים אִילָנוֹת וּבוֹקְעִים עֲיָנוֹת, כִּי דָבָר לֹא יַחְזֹר.”
“מָה אֲבֵכֶּה אָבְדָן שְׂרָרָה שְׁגּוּרָה שֶׁלֹּא תַחְזֹר?”
“שּׁוּב לֹא אֲקַוֶּה לָסֹב אָחוֹר.”
“צְעָדִים מְהַדְהֲדִים בַּזִּכָּרוֹן לְאֹרֶךְ מַעֲבָר שֶׁלֹּא הָלַכְנוּ בּוֹ לִקְרַאת הַדֶּלֶת שֶׁאַף-פַּעַם לֹא פָּתַחְנוּ.”
“מַה שֶּׁיָּכוֹל הָיָה לִהְיוֹת וּמַה שֶּׁהָיָה מַצְבִּיעִים אֶל קֵץ אֶחָד, וְהוּא תָּמִיד הוֹוֶה.”
“זְמַן הֹוֶה וּזְמַן עָבַר שְׁנֵיהֶם אוּלַי הוֹוִים בִּזְמַן עָתִיד.”
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“This love is silent.”
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
“It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.”
“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
“The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.”
“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.”
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
“Home is where one starts from.”