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
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.
aptitude study educated
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
patterns world complicated
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
creativity hands creative
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
temptation deeds lasts
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
wells
not fare well, but fare forward
intelligent intelligence crafts
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
feelings mind rooms
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
social-media distraction distracted
Distracted from distraction by distraction
respect library literature
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
music thyme lasts
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
hell figures always-alone
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
window-panes faces
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.