T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

So the lover must struggle for words. - T. S. Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words. T. S. Eliot

Romantic, Struggle, Words, Lover, Must

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, Dancing, Stillness

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, Find, Go, Risk, Will, Only

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

Time, Travel, End, Place, Know, Will

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, Wait, Wrong, Said

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

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

Creativity, Anxiety, Hand, Maiden

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, Before

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

Personality, Poetry, Escape, Know, Want

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, Out, 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

Wrong, Temptation, Right, Reason, Last

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

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

Poetry, Mature, Immature, Steal, Imitate

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

Temple, Where, Shall, Homes

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

You, Know, Tall, Head, Your, Over

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, Entertainment

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, Where

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, Never, Always, Beyond, Every

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

Best, Character, Facts, Worst, Become

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, While

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, Bang, Ends

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, Show, Dust, Handful

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, End, Call, Make, Where

This love is silent. - T. S. Eliot

This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

Love, Love Is, Silent

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. T. S. Eliot

Heart, Man, Me, Things, Intention, Lord

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. T. S. Eliot

Business, Poetry, Feelings, New, Find

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, Hope, Waiting, Faith, Wrong, Thing

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

Light, Passion, Blind, Person, Never

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