T. S. Eliot Quotes

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

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

Courage Go Will Who Only Far Find Going How How Far Out Possibly Risk Those Too

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Knowledge You Matter Your Cannot Degree Even Finger Graduation Invariably Know Put Say Simplest

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

You Your Know Tall Head Do You Know How Over

Home is where one starts from.

Home Where Starts

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.

Beginning End Start Make Call Often Where

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

Most Some Editors Failed Writers

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.

Life Age Believe Think Certain Certain Age Early Grows Happens Older Stands Still I Think

You are the music while the music lasts.

Music You Lasts While

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Reality Cannot Bear Very Humankind Much

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

World Way Bang Ends

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Moment Always Must Difficulties Dealt Every Our Permanent Somehow

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

Communication Fire Language Living Beyond Dead

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Politics Religion I Am Literature Am

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Done He Own Anything After Ever Funeral Got Nobel Ticket No-One

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

You Stop Your Blood Gets Least Playwriting Producers Public Tell Until

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Time Poetry Only Language Changing Help Prevent Rapidly Refine Should Too

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

Struggle Words Like Strange Asthmatic Breath Inadequate Lover Must Struggling

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.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Man World Will Who Forsake Forsaken Him More Old Old Man Repulsive Spectacle Than Which

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Respect Praise Enough Person High Literature Our Read Well

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Negative Nasty Narrow

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Creativity Anxiety Hand Maiden

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Today Business Crowds Consists Persuading

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.

World People Feel Important Does Done Due Half Harm Interest Mean Them Want Who

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?

Life Wisdom Knowledge Information Living Lost Where

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

Religion Know Literature Too Much Convinced Little Much Our Substitute Too

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Poetry Mature Immature Steal Imitate Poets

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

Important Possible Most Little Important Thing Most Important Thing Poets The Most Important Thing Write

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Poetry Genuine Before Understood Communicate

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Knowledge Information Lost Where

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

Temptation Right Wrong Reason Deed Greatest Last Treason

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

People Nothing Understand Cannot Events Ever Happened Whom

April is the cruellest month.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Romantic Struggle Words Must Lover

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Intelligence Intelligent Very Method

In my beginning is my end.

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

Death Birth Different Thought Had Seen Were

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Getting Down Trouble Up Curtain Greatest Up And Down

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Work First Last Thing Composing Discovers Put

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Life Coffee My Life Out Measured

This love is silent.

Love Love Is Silent

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

Time World Brainy Space Objects Only Selves Time And Space

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