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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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American
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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
Courage
,
Will
,
How Far
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
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T. S. Eliot
Light
,
Dancing
,
Shall
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
,
Expression
,
Means
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
,
Communicate
,
Before
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
Hope
,
Wait
,
Still
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
Coffee
,
My Life
,
Measured
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
Creativity
,
Anxiety
,
Maiden
April is the cruellest month.
T. S. Eliot
April
,
Month
This love is silent.
T. S. Eliot
Love
,
Love Is
,
Silent
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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
Music
,
Lasts
,
While
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
World
,
Bang
,
Ends
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
,
Call
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
Constant
,
Our
,
Mostly
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. Eliot
Wise
,
How
,
Violate
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
Knowledge
,
Lost
,
Living
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
,
Waiting
,
Would
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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Temple
,
Shall
,
Homes
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
Humankind
,
Very
,
Cannot
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
,
Mature
,
Steal
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
Like
,
Inadequate
,
Lover
In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot
Beginning
,
End
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
Last
,
Reason
,
Treason
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot
Head
,
Over
,
How
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
Graduation
,
Finger
,
Simplest
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot
Will
,
Show
,
Handful
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