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
christmas children moving
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
destiny risk finding-yourself
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny...
should-have sea pairs
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
soul
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
noise window should
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
months classic april
April is the cruellest month.
sunset skirts trails
And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -
knows
Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place...
catholic literature classicists
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
doors return
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass
suffering
We must learn to suffer more.
communication simple reality
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
information knowledge lost wisdom
Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?