T. S. Eliot Inspirational Quotations

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

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

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.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.