T. S. Eliot Quotes

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"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."

"You are the music while the music lasts."

"Home is where one starts from."

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."

"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

"In my beginning is my end."

"April is the cruellest month."

"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."

"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

"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."

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

"So the lover must struggle for words."

"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."

"It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves."

"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."

"The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours."

"There is no method but to be very intelligent."

"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."