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

T. S. Eliot Quotes

American - Poet September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

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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, Risk, Find

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, Time, End

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, Darkness, Stillness

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

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

Home, Where, Starts

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

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

Life, Coffee, My Life

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

Know, You, Head

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

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

Poetry, Genuine, Communicate

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

End, Beginning, Start

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, Soul, My Soul

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

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

Creativity, Anxiety, Hand

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, Personality, Escape

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

World, People, Want

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

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

Music, You, While

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. - T. S. Eliot

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot

Fear, You, Dust

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot

World, Way, Ends

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, Information

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

Time, Poetry, Feelings

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. - T. S. Eliot

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot

Greatest, Temptation, Reason

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

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

Reality, Bear, Cannot

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

Temple, Where, Shall

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

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

Poetry, Mature, Immature

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

Tree, Christmas, Moving

This love is silent. - T. S. Eliot

This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

Love, Love Is, Silent

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot

Experience, Paradox, Never

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot

Time, People, Television

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. - T. S. Eliot

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot

Wise, Rules, Know

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