T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

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

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, Will, Go, Going

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, Wait, My Soul, Said, Wrong

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, Over, Your

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

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

Creativity, Anxiety, Hand, Maiden

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

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

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

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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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, Where, Make

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

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

Temple, Where, Shall, Homes

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

Home is where one starts from. - T. S. Eliot

Home is where one starts from. T. S. Eliot

Home, Where, Starts

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, You, Know, Observe, How

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, Important, Feel, Done

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, Us, More, Little

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

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

This love is silent. - T. S. Eliot

This love is silent. T. S. Eliot

Love, Love Is, Silent

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, Television, Same

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot

Religion, Know, Too Much, Literature

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' T. S. Eliot

Mother, Baby, You, Desire, Young, Hatred

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

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, Value, Poetry, Game, Career

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