Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find…

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot”

— Dean Karnazes

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

“The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     —George Eliot”

— Ann Brashares

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end.…

— Matt Bors

“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a…

— George Eliot

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

— Bill N. Lacy

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…

— T.S. Mathews

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not…

— Pankaj Mishra

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what…

— Gore Vidal

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,…

— Bob Dylan