💬 Quotes

"I was like a creature driven and derided by vanity: and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

"The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful."

"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy... cities will never have rest from their evils."

"The soul of the child is the handle by which you may lift the whole life."

"Those who are best fitted to govern are those who are least eager to do so."

"The shadows of the images are all they will see, or they will mistake the objects themselves for the shadows."

"Justice is the having and doing what is one's own, and belongs to oneself."

"The world is full of perils and in all lands love is now joined with grief."

"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."

"How can you sit there calm and cold, while the world is burning, and the Orcs are eating up the land?"

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

"The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart."

"The dissociation of sensibility which Eliot diagnosed in the seventeenth century is the fundamental cleavage of the modern mind, between the faculty that feels and the faculty that thinks."

"Eliot’s poetry is a poetry of allusion, where the echoes of the past serve to define the hollow emptiness of the present."

"To Eliot, tradition is not a static inheritance but a living organism that must be constantly modified by the introduction of the new."

"The impersonality of the poet is not an absence of emotion, but a calculated detachment that allows the work to exist independently of the creator's biography."

"His later work marks a transition from the despair of urban alienation to the disciplined hope of spiritual meditation."

"Eliot does not offer answers; he offers a rhythm for the search, a structure for the chaos of modern experience."

"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon."