Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T. S. EliotI do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
T. S. EliotTo do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. EliotTo believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.
T. S. Eliot