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T. S. Eliot Quotes about Inspirational

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

Inspirational, Life Changing, Successful

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.938, Faber & Faber

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Inspirational, Mean, People

T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Inspirational, Motivational, Truth

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Inspirational, Music, Fear

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

Inspirational, Men, Artist

The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Book by T. S. Eliot, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (quoting Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916), 1964.

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

Inspirational, Dark, Light

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.162, Faber & Faber

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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

Inspirational, Life, Forever

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.396, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Inspirational, Time, Poetry

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.6, Faber & Faber

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Inspirational, Fear, Dust

The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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

Inspirational, Life, Dancing

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.181, Faber & Faber

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