Author: T. S. Eliot

Quotes

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

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

- T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

- T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

- T. S. Eliot

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.

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.

- T. S. Eliot

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

- T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

- T. S. Eliot

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.

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.

- T. S. Eliot

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.

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.

- T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

- T. S. Eliot

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