Poetry Quote by T.S. Eliot — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”

“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire”

“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?”

““Do I dare”

“We are the hollow men”

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

“Out of love,”

“If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”

“Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home.”

“I went down to the river,”

“Only poetry isn't shit.”