60 result(s) for T. S. Eliot Quotes.
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past."
"April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
"Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go."
"The greatest proof of courage is the ability to bear defeat without losing heart."
"Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections."
"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
"What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then."
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"Hell is oneself, it's the self one has never forgiven."
"Out of the nursery into the world, there he will be / Men are jerks! Women are bastards!"
"Only those who have risked going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
"For I have known them all already, known them all:— / Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, / I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;"
"You are the music while the music lasts."
"The journey, Not the arrival, Matters."
"It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape, not from our own time, for we are bound by that, but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time."
"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
"Distracted from distraction by distraction."
"Half 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. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
"The journey, Not the arrival matters."
"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."
"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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"All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance."
"Home is where one starts from."
"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
"We die to each other daily. What we know of other people Is only our memory of the moments During which we knew them. And they have changed since then."
"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
"In a world of fugitives, the one that walks away is the one true path."
"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."
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"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."
"Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections."
"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 are rarely conscious."
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
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"It is not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them."
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
"We die to each other daily."
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
"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."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
"April is the cruelest month."
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"In my beginning is my end."
"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."
"The purpose of literature is to turn words into blood."
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
"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. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
"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."
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
"Desire itself is movement."
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