I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Failure Quotes, Words Quotes

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

This love is silent.

This love is silent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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

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

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.