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“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

“There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us”

T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men

if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
The Hollow Men (1925)

“And I have known the arms already, known them all —
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair! ]
It is perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?”

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

“The 'greatness' of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards; though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.”

"Religion and Literature" (1935), in Essays Ancient and Modern (1936)

“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62

“We may say that 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.”

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 61

“It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.”

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 59

“The division between those who accept, and those who deny, Christian revelation I take to be the most profound division between human beings.”

"Revelation" (1937), in The Idea of a Christian Society and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1982), p. 168

“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

T.S. Eliot book The Rock

The Rock, Part I (1934)