--- title: "21 Ifs Quotes By T. S. Eliot" description: "21 Ifs quotes by T. S. Eliot. Plus more from T. S. Eliot and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/t-s-eliot-633_boundaries_if-you-do-not-push-the-boundaries-you-wi_1216801.png" --- > [If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-you-do-not-push-the-boundaries-you-will-never-know-where-they-are/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/t-s-eliot-633_boundaries_if-you-do-not-push-the-boundaries-you-wi_1216801.png) > [If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-you-start-with-a-bang-you-won-t-end-with-a-whimper/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/t-s-eliot-633_bang_if-you-start-with-a-bang-you-won-t-end-w_1662968.png) > [If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-one-has-to-earn-a-living-therefore-the-safest-occupation-is-that/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52f/t-s-eliot-633_art_if-one-has-to-earn-a-living-therefore-th_2769287.png) > [If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-you-want-it-you-must-obtain-it-by-great-labor/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/t-s-eliot-633_basketball_if-you-want-it-you-must-obtain-it-by-gre_339347.png) > [If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-all-time-is-eternally-present-all-time-is-unredeemable/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/t-s-eliot-633_all-time_if-all-time-is-eternally-present-all-tim_664306.png) > [Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/disillusion-can-become-itself-an-illusion-if-we-rest-in-it/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/t-s-eliot-633_disillusion_disillusion-can-become-itself-an-illusio_2098474.png) > [We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-learn-what-poetry-is-if-we-ever-learn-by-reading-it/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/665/t-s-eliot-633_education_we-learn-what-poetry-is-if-we-ever-learn_2464717.png) > [Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/time-present-and-time-past-are-both-perhaps-present-in-time-future-2/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fe/t-s-eliot-633_all-time_time-present-and-time-past-are-both-perh_1986916.png) > [If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-we-really-want-to-pray-we-must-first-learn-to-listen-for-in-the/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/t-s-eliot-633_clean-heart_if-we-really-want-to-pray-we-must-first_191670.png) > [Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/turning-wearily-as-one-would-turn-to-nod-goodbye-to-rochefoucauld-if/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/t-s-eliot-633_ends_turning-wearily-as-one-would-turn-to-nod_1426697.png) > [A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/a-national-culture-if-it-is-to-flourish-should-be-a-constellation-of/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/444/t-s-eliot-633_benefits_a-national-culture-if-it-is-to-flourish_1328773.png) > [If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-we-are-moved-by-a-poem-it-has-meant-something-perhaps-something/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/t-s-eliot-633_ifs_if-we-are-moved-by-a-poem-it-has-meant-s_3227681.png) > [Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/shape-without-form-shade-without-color-paralyzed-force-gesture/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/t-s-eliot-633_color_shape-without-form-shade-without-color-p_2665211.jpg) > [The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-tendency-of-liberals-is-to-create-bodies-of-men-and-women-of-all/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/t-s-eliot-633_body_the-tendency-of-liberals-is-to-create-bo_2340711.png) > [Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/poets-in-our-civilization-as-it-exists-at-present-must-be-difficult/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/405/t-s-eliot-633_civilization_poets-in-our-civilization-as-it-exists-a_647430.png) > [If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/if-you-find-examples-of-humanism-which-are-anti-religious-or-at-least/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/t-s-eliot-633_anti-religious_if-you-find-examples-of-humanism-which-a_814778.png) > [When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/when-oxygen-and-sulphur-dioxide-are-mixed-in-the-presence-of-a/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b18/t-s-eliot-633_acid_when-oxygen-and-sulphur-dioxide-are-mixe_1535792.png) > [ As a rule, with me an unfinished \[idea\] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/as-a-rule-with-me-an-unfinished-idea-is-a-thing-that-might-as-well-be/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/t-s-eliot-633_drawers_as-a-rule-with-me-an-unfinished-idea-is_1669405.png) > [Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/can-we-only-love-something-created-in-our-own-imaginations-are-we-all/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/t-s-eliot-633_beloved_can-we-only-love-something-created-in-ou_2361047.png) > [A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/a-good-deal-of-confusion-could-be-avoided-if-we-refrained-from/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e84/t-s-eliot-633_aim_a-good-deal-of-confusion-could-be-avoide_1050317.png) > [Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/destiny-a-word-which-means-more-than-we-can-find-any-definitions-for/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/t-s-eliot-633_caprice_destiny-a-word-which-means-more-than-we_1594346.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by T. S. Eliot > [The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-nobel-is-a-ticket-to-one-s-own-funeral-no-one-has-ever-done/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/dear-mother-i-am-getting-on-nicely-in-my-work-at-the-bank-and-like-it/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/for-love-would-be-love-of-the-wrong-thing-there-is-yet-faith-but-the/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [We must always take risks. That is our destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-must-always-take-risks-that-is-our-destiny/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/all-significant-truths-are-private-truths-as-they-become-public-they/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/when-forced-to-work-within-a-strict-framework-the-imagination-is/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/honest-criticism-and-sensitive-appreciation-are-directed-not-upon-the/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/desire-itself-is-movement-not-in-itself-desirable-love-is-itself/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic-irregular-fragmentary-he/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-had-the-experience-but-we-missed-the-meaning/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [The end is in the beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-end-is-in-the-beginning/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/you-have-learned-enough-to-see-that-cats-are-much-like-you-and-me/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-good-poet-welds-his-theft-into-a-whole-of-feeling-which-is-unique/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/it-s-strange-that-words-are-so-inadequate-yet-like-the-asthmatic/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) > [Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/every-end-is-a-beginning-and-every-beginning-is-an-end/) [T. S. 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