T. S. Eliot Quotes

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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.
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Time, End, Place

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Find, Far, Risk

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.
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End, Start, Often

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, Means, Emotions

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.
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Important, Mean, Done

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?
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Life, Knowledge, Wisdom

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.
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Passion, Person, Light

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Poetry, Before, Genuine

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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Creativity, Anxiety, Hand

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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Heart, Lord, Excellent

You are the music while the music lasts.
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Music, While, Lasts

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.
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Love, Faith, Hope

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.
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Best, Character, Become

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Reality, Cannot, Bear

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Life, Coffee, Measured

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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Struggle, Words, Strange

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.
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Age, Life, Older

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.
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Experience, Means, Goes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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Knowledge, Character, Passion

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.
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Christmas, Moving, Between

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.
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Time, Poetry, Feelings

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

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Fear, Show, Dust

Home is where one starts from.
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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 26, 1888

Died: January 4, 1965

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