T. S. Eliot Quotes

T. S. Eliot Quotes

T. S. Eliot Quotes

Consider the following quotes by T. S. Eliot:

"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."

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."

"Humankind cannot stand very much reality."

"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."

"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."

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

"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 thi"

"Success is relative. It is what we can"