Here are 35 Best Quotes Of T. S. Eliot , who was one of the highly esteemed poet of the 20th century.
He was awarded by the prestigious Nibel Prize award in 1948 for his remarkable work in English Literature.
Besides being a great poet, T.S.Eloit was also a literary critic , dramatist , editor and publisher.
His major work includes
The Waste Land (1922)
The Love Song Of J.Alfred Prufrock (1917)
Preludes (1920)
Whispers Of Immortality (1920)
Gerontion (1920)
Converstaion Galante (1920)
Hysteria (1915)
35 Insightful Quotes Of T. S. Eliot
1) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot
2) Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. - T. S. Eliot
3) 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? - T. S. Eliot
4) The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. - T. S. Eliot
5) Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. - T. S. Eliot
6) Humor is also a way of saying something serious. - T. S. Eliot
7) I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say. - T. S. Eliot
8) Every moment is a fresh beginning. - T. S. Eliot
9) Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
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10) We had the experience, but we missed the meaning. - T. S. Eliot
11) There is no method but to be very intelligent. - T. S. Eliot
12) In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not. - T. S. Eliot
13) The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area. - T. S. Eliot
14) If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned. - T. S. Eliot
15) No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice. - T. S. Eliot
16) The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it. - T. S. Eliot
17) The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - T. S. Eliot
18) Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion? - T. S. Eliot
19) In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. - T. S. Eliot
20) The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less. - T. S. Eliot
21) What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? - T. S. Eliot
22) People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. - T. S. Eliot
23) Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. - T. S. Eliot
24) I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
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25) We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational. - T. S. Eliot
26) No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. - T. S. Eliot
27) The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. - T. S. Eliot
28) Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. - T. S. Eliot
29) Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. - T. S. Eliot
30) It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary. - T. S. Eliot
31) Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. - T. S. Eliot
32) The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning. - T. S. Eliot
33) Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. - T. S. Eliot
34) Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are. - T. S. Eliot
35) In my beginning is my end. - T. S. Eliot
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