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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
American Poet
Born: Sep 26, 1888
Died: Jan 4, 1965
Knowledge Life Poet Time Will You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
Courage Will Too Those Out Possibly Find Risk Only How How Far Go Going Far Who
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
Time Travel Will First Our Shall Know First Time Arrive Cease End Where Place Exploration Exploring Started
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot
Knowledge Lost Where Information
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Communicate Before Poetry Genuine Understood
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
Temptation Wrong Greatest Reason Deed Right Treason Last
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. T. S. Eliot
Beginning Make Call End Often Where Start
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. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. T. S. Eliot
Emotions Personality Those Only Poetry Emotion Know Course Loose Escape Want Turning Means Who Expression Things
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. T. S. Eliot
People World Half Important Feel Does Due Done Want Interest Mean Them Who Harm
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? T. S. Eliot
Life Wisdom Knowledge Lost Living Where Information
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot
Creativity Anxiety Maiden Hand
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. T. S. Eliot
Life Coffee My Life Out Measured
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. T. S. Eliot
World Way Bang Ends
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot
Reality Bear Very Cannot Much Humankind
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot
You Wise Rules Observe Know Until How Them Violate
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot
Life Age Older Believe Think Still Happens Certain Certain Age Stands Grows Early
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
Light Passion More Never Obvious Blind Than Person Experienced Explain Who
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. T. S. Eliot
Time Entertainment People Lonesome Joke Medium Television Remain Permits Same Listen Same Time Which Millions Millions Of People
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot
Experience Every Relative Paradox Somehow Absolute Never Beyond Always Itself Escapes Goes Means
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. T. S. Eliot
People Events Nothing Understand Happened Cannot Whom Ever
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. T. S. Eliot
Negative Narrow Nasty
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
Imitate Immature Steal Poets Mature
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot
Time Feelings Our Our Lives Penetrate Ourselves Constant Rarely More Poetry Make Mostly From Time To Time May Being Form Which Little Us Evasion Aware Deeper Lives
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot
Christmas Christmas Tree Tree Corner Fragrant Pleasure Tables Rising Kisses Take Knee Advancing Taking Between Arm Retreating Toys Falling Legs Moving Reassured Grasping Boldly Sudden Chairs Eager Alarm Brilliance
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. T. S. Eliot
Man World Old Will More Him Than Which Forsake Repulsive Forsaken Old Man Who Spectacle
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot
You Fear Will Dust Handful Show
April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot
Month April
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