“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation.”
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.”