T. S. Eliot

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#business #emotions #express #feelings #find

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#anything #done #ever #funeral #got

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#new #new year #springs #tiger #us

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#thought #wait #without #you

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cease #end #exploration #exploring #first

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#shall #temple #where

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#call #end #make #often #start

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#knowledge #life #living #lost #where

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#done #due #feel #half #harm

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#experienced #explain #light #more #never