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
success failure entrepreneur
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
reading poetry-is ifs
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
inspirational funny life
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.
mind experience poet
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
exercise people influence
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
journey matter destination
The journey, Not the destination matters...
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
humility thinking self
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
enough ought knows
It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
death poetry religion
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
past times-past quartets
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
circles understanding areas
The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area.
memories men forget
Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.