ts eliot

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

You are the music while the music lasts.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

1888-1965. Thomas Stearns Eliot. American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor, a leader of the modernist movement.