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
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?
british-author difficult less life
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
experience survive wait
The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and hat's an experience of incalculable value.
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.