#ts eliott

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."

T.S. Eliot

[marrciray]

Storytime (08/16/17) McCavity by T.S. Eliott

@relise-thefury suggested this one! Had to make sure I got it posted.

[themaninthegreenshirt]

“Half 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. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

T.S. Eliot, with his sister, Marion [1958]

Eliot is wearing the Stetson hat he was given, together with a sheriff's badge, when he was made an honorary sheriff in Dallas, Texas a few weeks earlier.

[themaninthegreenshirt]

For last year's words belong to last year's language  And next year's words await another voice.  And to make an end is to make a beginning. 

T.S. Eliot, 26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965

[themaninthegreenshirt]

“You have made me perfectly happy: that is, happier than I have ever been in my life; the only kind of happiness now possible for the rest of my life is now with me; and though it is the kind of happiness which is identical with my deepest loss and sorrow, it is a kind of supernatural ecstasy.”

“I tried to pretend that my love for you was dead, though I could only do so by pretending myself that my heart was dead; at any rate, I resigned myself to celibate old age.”

An extract from a letter to Emily Hale from TS Eliot

Emily Hale and TS Eliot pictured in 1946 

[jinnies-lamps]

we shall not cease from exploration

and the end of all our exploring

will be to arrive where we started

and know the place for the first time