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
faith inspiration voice
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
winter thyme waterfalls
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts
unique feelings immature
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.
basketball individual-talent want
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
envy people envious
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
loneliness thinking poetry
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
new-beginnings tunnels new-start
The end is where we start from.
light invisible reminders
Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
pain freedom liberty
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
struggle way where-you-are
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
meditation waiting thyme
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
self may patterns
History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
life thinking may
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.
cat speak
With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.