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
clever dare universe
Do I dare disturb the universe?
clever dare universe
Do I dare disturb the universe?
talking sawdust rooms
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
peace thinking grandchildren
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
dark space vacant
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
purification motive wells
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
life success food
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
morning fear dust
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust
stealing poet
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
action
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
space self world
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
kindness reality atheism
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
fall essence shadow
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.