Quotes to inspire and reflect

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:

Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind!

The last temptation is the greatest treason:

Yet we have gone on living,

I grow old … I grow old …

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

Let us go then, you and I,

In the room the women come and go

An alien people clutching their gods.

I had seen birth and death

A cold coming we had of it,

This is the way the world ends

Here we go round the prickly pear

We are the hollow men.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Tenants of the house,

Here I am, an old man in a dry month

And all shall be well and

So, while the light fails

What we call the beginning is often the end

We shall not cease from exploration

Speech impelled us

Ash on an old man’s sleeve

This is the death of air.

The communication

I think that the river

The wounded surgeon plies the steel

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,

Words strain,

The intolerable wrestle

Human kind

At the still point of the turning world.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Time present and time past

What is hell?

Success is relative:

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree

Teach us to care and not to care

Oh may I join the choir invisible

Because I do not hope to turn again

‘Character’ says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms—‘character is destiny.’

In every parting there is an image of death.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The dead level of provincial existence.