T.S. Eliot Quotes

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.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

You are the music while the music lasts.

For last year`s words belong to last year`s language and next year`s words await another voice.

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.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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

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?

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.

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.

In my end is my beginning.

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.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.