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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot

Courage, Will, How Far

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Expression, Means

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot

Travel, Will, Exploration

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. - T. S. Eliot

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. T. S. Eliot

Light, Dancing, Shall

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot

Hope, Still, Wait

Home is where one starts from. - T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot

Home, Where, Starts

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. - T. S. Eliot

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Mature, Steal

This love is silent. - T. S. Eliot

This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

Love, Love Is, Silent

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. T. S. Eliot

Temple, Shall, Homes

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. - T. S. Eliot

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot

Creativity, Anxiety, Maiden

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot

Beginning, Start, Call

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? T. S. Eliot

Over, Head, How

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. T. S. Eliot

Want, Harm, Half

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot

Constant, Mostly, Our

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. T. S. Eliot

View, Ideal, Which

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot

Coffee, My Life, Measured

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Poetry, Before, Communicate

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. - T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot

Cannot, Very, Humankind

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. T. S. Eliot

Blind, Never, Explain

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot

Rising, Christmas, Fragrant

You are the music while the music lasts. - T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot

Music, Lasts, While

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Living, Lost

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. T. S. Eliot

Private, Truths, Part

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

Love, Waiting, Would

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. T. S. Eliot

Graduation, Finger, Simplest

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? - T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot

Knowledge, Lost, Where

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