TS ELIOT QUOTES

“Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.”

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

“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.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”

“Only through time time is conquered.”

“Quickly, perhaps very quickly, reason is a thing of the past and we shall scramble after impulse.”

“We are all fragments of a mirror, whose shattered pieces we try to assemble in the attempt to recover our original selves.”

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

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

“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.”

“It is not wisdom to ignore an obvious fact or reason away a reasonable one.”

“Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow.”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” BMW FUNNY QUOTES

“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.”

“There will be time, there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”

“Everywhere the dinner is getting cold.”

“We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”

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

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire.”

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.”

“The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word.”

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

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

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality.”