T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

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, Risk, Will, Go, How Far

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, Dancing

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, Wait, My Soul, Said, Wrong

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 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

Temptation, Right, Wrong, Last, Greatest

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

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, Call, Make, Where

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

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

Creativity, Anxiety, Hand, Maiden

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, Tall, Over, How

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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

Christmas, Tree, Moving, Toys, Legs

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, Emotions, Know

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

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, You, Observe, How

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, Dust, Show, Handful

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, Always, Never, Beyond, Goes

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, Faith, Waiting, Wrong, Would

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

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

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

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

Poetry, Mature, Immature, Steal, Imitate

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, May, Little, Us

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

People, World, Feel, Done, Important

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, Value, Game, Feel

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. T. S. Eliot

Respect, Literature, Enough, Person, Our

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

Temple, Where, Shall, Homes

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, Breath, Like

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