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T. S. Eliot

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

Quotes:

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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