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
british-author difficult less life
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
bottoms grow shall trousers wear
I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
five round
Here we go round the prickly pear / At five o'clock in the morning.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
below saw second shape turned turning twisted
At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the banister.
cat except until wind
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
far possibly risk
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
assurance hat low silk whom
One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
family finds light lived looked love vocabulary within
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
birth hour pray
Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
entertainment joke listen lonesome medium millions people permits radio remain
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
bright daughter feet moon mrs porter soda wash
O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.
beyond communication dead death fire language speech
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.