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
memories spring rain
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
life wisdom knowledge
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
work poetry trying
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
music dope jazz-and-life
You are the music while the music lasts.
knowledge technology information
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
adversity hard-times entrepreneur
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
trouble curtains up-and-down
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
illusion disillusionment disillusion
Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.
clouds design accidents
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
relationship memories people
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
hope lying fire
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
light darkness glory
The darkness declares the glory of the light.
singing moonlight grass
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
light generosity dancing
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.