T.S. Eliot Quotes Celebrating Life, Love and Poetry

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T.S. Eliot Quotes Celebrating Life, Love and Poetry


T.S. Eliot was a poet, dramatist, literary critic, and editor who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Considered one of the greatest poets in the English language, some of his most famous poems include “The Waste Land”, “Ash Wednesday”, and “Four Quartets”. Here is our collection of T.S. Eliot quotes, collected from a number of sources over the years. 1. ”Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot 2. ”To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” – T.S. Eliot 3. ”Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” – T.S. Eliot 4. ”Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T.S Eliot 5. ”You are the music while the music lasts.” – T.S. Eliot 6. ”If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” – T.S. Eliot



7. ”Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.” – T.S. Eliot 8. ”Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” – T.S. Eliot 9. ”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 10. ”Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.” – T.S. Eliot 11. ”Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.” – T. S. Eliot 12. ”The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.” – T. S. Eliot 13. ”In life there is no time to grieve long.” – T.S. Eliot 14. ”Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot



15. ”Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.” – T. S. Eliot 16. ”The journey, not the destination matters.” – T. S. Eliot 17. ”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.” – T.S. Eliot 18. ”If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” – T. S. Eliot 19. ”What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?” – T.S Eliot 20. ”Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” – T.S Eliot For great content on a wide variety of topics, check out www.vujar.com.



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