T.S. Eliot Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

17 Famous Quotes by T.S. Eliot
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“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity”
Anxiety Quotes
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
Beginning Quotes
“In my end is my beginning.”
Ending Quotes
“To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...”
Events Quotes
“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.”
Exploration Quotes
“There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
Faults Quotes
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
Information Quotes
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
Motives Quotes
“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.”
New year Quotes
“The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.”
Poets Quotes
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Risk-taking Quotes
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
Temptation Quotes
“Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.”
Romance Quotes
“...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - 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 and the hope 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.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.”
Death / immortality Quotes
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
Life Quotes
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
Peace Quotes