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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Struggle, Strange
T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Family, Vocabulary

Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Cruelty
T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Past, Desire
1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Life, Romantic
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

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.

T. S. Eliot
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.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Memories, Garden
Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Hope, Light
1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

T. S. Eliot
Love, Self Esteem, Men
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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