"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."
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T.S. Eliot
23 quotes
Quotes by T.S. Eliot
"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."
"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink."
"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"
"Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel."
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?"
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"
"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light."
"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
"If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."