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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, How Far, Will

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

Dancing, Light, Shall

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, Exploration, Will

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

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

Maiden, Anxiety, Creativity

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

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, Means, Expression

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

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

Poetry, Communicate, Before

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

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

Treason, Reason, Last

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

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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

Mostly, Constant, Our

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

Temple, Shall, Homes

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

Half, Harm, Want

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

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

Poetry, Mature, Steal

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

Call, Beginning, Start

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

Always, Means, Escapes

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. - T. S. Eliot

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. T. S. Eliot

New, Springs, Year

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, Bang, Ends

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, How, Violate

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

Which, View, Ideal

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

Living, Knowledge, Lost

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

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot

Age, Grows, Think

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. T. S. Eliot

Wait, Thought, Ready

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, Would, Waiting

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

Will, Handful, Show

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