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
peace libertarian poultry
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
passion emotional justice
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
educational home where-home-is
Home is where one starts from.
death different birth
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
hope taken men
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
communication writing poetry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
time past might
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
life men might
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
blood literature ink
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
blood theatre producers
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
silence enough found
Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
attitude creativity giving
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
order way quartets
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
stealing-things immature different
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.