--- title: "15 Knows Quotes By T. S. Eliot" description: "15 Knows quotes by T. S. Eliot. Plus more from T. S. Eliot and more Knows 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) > [What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/what-we-know-of-other-people-s-only-our-memory-of-the-moments-during/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37d/t-s-eliot-633_cocktail-parties_what-we-know-of-other-people-s-only-our_1450765.png) > [We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-shall-not-cease-from-exploring-and-the-end-of-our-exploring-will/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/t-s-eliot-633_bridges_we-shall-not-cease-from-exploring-and-th_1698527.png) > [But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/but-it-seems-that-something-has-happened-that-has-never-happened/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/t-s-eliot-633_faith_but-it-seems-that-something-has-happened_2630788.png) > [The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-destination-cannot-be-described-you-will-know-very-little-until/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/t-s-eliot-633_blind_the-destination-cannot-be-described-you_2182978.png) > [When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/when-the-gods-know-that-a-god-hath-fallen-with-this-kindly-feeling/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/t-s-eliot-633_again-and-again_when-the-gods-know-that-a-god-hath-falle_3046729.png) > [Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/art-serves-us-best-precisely-at-that-point-where-it-can-shift-our/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/951/t-s-eliot-633_art_art-serves-us-best-precisely-at-that-poi_2949074.png) > [It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/it-is-not-enough-to-understand-what-we-ought-to-be-unless-we-know/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/t-s-eliot-633_enough_it-is-not-enough-to-understand-what-we-o_1435660.png) > [We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-fight-for-lost-causes-because-we-know-that-our-defeat-and-dismay/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37e/t-s-eliot-633_alive_we-fight-for-lost-causes-because-we-know_2332940.jpg) > [Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/because-i-know-that-time-is-always-time-and-place-is-always-place-and/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95a/t-s-eliot-633_funny_because-i-know-that-time-is-always-time_2381907.jpg) > [That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/that-is-the-worst-moment-when-you-feel-you-have-lost-the-desires-for/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fc/t-s-eliot-633_behinds_that-is-the-worst-moment-when-you-feel-y_1831104.png) > [I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/i-think-it-was-rather-an-advantage-not-having-any-living-poets-in/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/t-s-eliot-633_advantage_i-think-it-was-rather-an-advantage-not-h_1339670.png) > [But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/but-it-seems-that-something-has-happened-that-has-never-happened-2/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/t-s-eliot-633_age_but-it-seems-that-something-has-happened_3167453.jpg) > [We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-shall-not-cease-from-exploration-and-the-end-of-all-our-exploring-2/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/t-s-eliot-633_apple-trees_we-shall-not-cease-from-exploration-and_1734689.png) > [I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/i-do-not-know-much-about-gods-but-i-think-that-the-river-is-a-strong/) [T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/t-s-eliot-633_bridges_i-do-not-know-much-about-gods-but-i-thin_704459.jpg) ## Other authors on Knows ## 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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