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Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”
“In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.”
“All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.”
“The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.”
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”
“If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable”
“Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.”
“Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done”
“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”
“The work of creation is never without travail.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”