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Quotes by T. S. Eliot

British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965)

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We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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.

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

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We shall never 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.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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.