For more than a decade, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically.

—

Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something / Upon which to rejoice — T. S. Eliot

To be conscious is not to be in time / But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, / The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, / The moment in the draughty church at smokefall / Be remembered; involved with past and future. / Only through time is time conquered — T.S. Eliot

What I want to say is that culture—art, if you like—has an important set of functions in preparing us for the future. — Brian Eno