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Inspirational Quotes by T. S. Eliot

79 Inspirational quotes by T. S. Eliot

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T.S. Eliot urges us to take risks as part of our destiny. He reflects on missed meaning despite experience, notes that knowledge from experience has limited value, and even imagines moonlit grass singing. He also plays with language, calling his name an anagram of toilets.

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Survival is your strength not your shame.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.

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He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

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In life there is not time to grieve long.

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People find a way in which they can say something.

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The work of creation is never without travail.

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We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

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

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Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

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What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before.

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A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. .…

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And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground…

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Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual…

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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for…

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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand…

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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.

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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

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In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

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The end is where we start from.

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Hurry up, please, its time.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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Talent imitates, but genius steals.

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Good poets borrow, great poets steal

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The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

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We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

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Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all…

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the…

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

The end is in the beginning.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.