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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

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

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

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

Creativity, Anxiety, Hand

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

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

Poetry, Genuine, Understood

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

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, Said

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, End, Start

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, Know

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

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

Music, You, Lasts

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, Listen

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, Information, Lost

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

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

This love is silent. - T. S. Eliot

This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

Love, Love Is, Silent

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

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

Reality, Bear, Cannot

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Words, Strange

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

Tiger, Year, New

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

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot

Progress, Personality

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

Life, Age, Believe

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, Will

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

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

Poetry, Immature, Mature

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. T. S. Eliot

Blood, You, Tell

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T. S. Eliot

Life, Time, Poetry

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, Wrong

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