T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot OMwas an American-born British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved to England in 1914 at age 25, settling, working and marrying there. He was eventually naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39, renouncing his American citizenship...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 September 1888
CountryUnited States of America
T. S. Eliot quotes about
risk curious should
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
teaching reality too-much
Humankind can't stand too much reality.
forever religion essentials
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
healing past vitality
Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
reading exercise healthy
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
artist immature aliens
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
organization humanity progress
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
adventure thinking people
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
unique originality cases
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
travel adventure science
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
time past quartets
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
nature struggle men
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.
food cheese firsts
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
passion majority humans
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.