Quotes from T.S.Eliot

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Of course one can 'go too far' and except in directions in which we can go too far there is no interest in going at all; and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. Not to go far enough is to remain 'in the vague' as surely and less creditably than to exceed

And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation

Would it have been worthwhile If one settling a pillow by her head should say: That is not what I meant at all That is not it at all

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

Who is the third that walks always beside you? When I count there are only you and I together.