Trego's Mountain Ear

I was introduced to TS Eliot in high school.  His poetry and prose have been with me for a lifetime.  I suppose that “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Hollow Men” began my appreciation of Eliot’s work.  Some of his lesser known thoughts include these:

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

I was neither at the hot gates
Nor fought in the warm rain
Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass,
Bitten by flies, fought.