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Quotes Sept. 26, 2018

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T. S. Eliot Quotes

American - Poet September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965


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


Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot


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


This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot


The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

T. S. Eliot


Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot


The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

T. S. Eliot


All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

T. S. Eliot



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