T. S. Eliot Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Struggle, Strange

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

• It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

  T. S. Eliot

  Nature, Struggle, Men

• To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Way, Where You Are

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

• Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

  T. S. Eliot

  Attitude, Struggle, May

• So the lover must struggle for words.

  T. S. Eliot

  Struggle, Alaska, Lovers

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.574, Faber & Faber

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