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
journey ends
Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.
time people patterns
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
moments difficulty permanent
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
mountain feels waste-land
In the mountains, there you feel free.
action one-time
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
time please
Hurry up, please, its time.
life moving dark
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.
hope men library
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
perfect design needs
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
lessons
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.
self errors judging
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
stealing poet great-poet
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
done wanted turns
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done