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.
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Quotes by T. S. Eliot
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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.
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?
Home is where one starts from.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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.
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
You are the music while the music lasts.
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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.
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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