Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.
T. S. EliotThe more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
T. S. EliotIt is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
T. S. EliotToday, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
T. S. EliotAsh on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.
T. S. Eliot