The bad poet is usually unconscious when he ought to be concious,
and concious when he ought to be unconcious.
--T. S. Eliot
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
--T. S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
--T. S. Eliot
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him
will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
--T. S. Eliot
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.
--T. S. Eliot
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
--T. S. Eliot
You are the music while the music lasts.
--T. S. Eliot
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
--T. S. Eliot
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
--T. S. Eliot
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