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
doors way may
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
urban planning traffic
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
helping language should
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
knowledge organized-life too-much-information
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
years different emotion
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
pride people important
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
death years dying
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
survival shame
Survival is your strength not your shame.
letting-go time acceptance
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
long notes please
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
simple way-to-live life-is
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
experience
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
hope meditation waiting
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.