Famous Quotes by T. S. Eliot

Below are famous quotes by T. S. Eliot - British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965).

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

We shall never 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.

We shall not cease from our exploration
And at the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time

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