FAMOUS TS ELIOT QUOTES

“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”

“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.”

“The journey, not the arrival matters.”

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

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

“Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

“In my end is my beginning.”

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

“You are the music while the music lasts.”

“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.”

“Only those who have lived in the shadows can understand the power of the light.”

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”

“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” QUOTES ABOUT HAVING FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

“Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.”

“We are all ​fools in love.”

“It’s strange how potent cheap music is.”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.”

“Home is where one starts from.”

“Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly.”

“Only through time time is conquered.”