Famous Quotes / T. S. Eliot
86 Quotations by T. S. Eliot
- 41. One starts an action simply because one must do something.
- 42. Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
- 43. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
- 44. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
- 45. Our emotions are only "incidents in the effort to keep day and night together.
- 46. Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
- 47. People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
- 48. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe ...
- 49. Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form ...
- 50. Redeem
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- 51. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
- 52. So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are ...
- 53. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- 54. Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
- 55. Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
- 56. Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke ...
- 57. The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
- 58. The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
- 59. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
- 60. The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.