“When I was in high school, I had never read Black poetry. The one poet of color whom I had read, and loved, was Pablo Neruda. I have to say that Neruda and Millay were the two poets I loved. All the others didn't make much sense. Except Eliot. He really got to me. That man really did it for me with language.”
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
T. S. Eliot
“This love is silent.”
T. S. Eliot
“For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.”
T. S. Eliot
“Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.”
T. S. Eliot
“Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural — but little developed — aptitude for seriousness.”
T. S. Eliot
