“Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”
More from T. S. Eliot
“There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”
“Combing the white hair of the waves blown back, when the wind blows the water white and…”
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”