T. S. Eliot
36 quotations
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
In my beginning is my end.
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.