T. S. Eliot's Quotes

T. S. Eliot's Quotes 72

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be...

So the lover must struggle for words.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

You are the music while the music lasts.

This love is silent.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in...

Home is where one starts from.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon...

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith...

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is...

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the...

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping...

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease...

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

"We shall not cease from exploration

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping...

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