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
time past might
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
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.
social-media distraction distracted
Distracted from distraction by distraction
time window-panes murder
There will be time to murder and create.
time believe thinking
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
drinking hands tea
Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.
bottles events unexpected
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...
drinking drug gin
Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
time tired action
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
time past mind
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
time past escaping
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
time hair wonder
And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.
friday jesus thinking
The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
bridges crowds london
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.