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
further
And we must think no further of you.
questions steel surgeon wounded
The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
edge river sea within
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
brain brains dry thoughts
Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
arrest blank chinese suffered verse wall
After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.
eternal hold seen
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
fog rubs yellow
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
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.
century
In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
british-author
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
ends
It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
clean clear stone wash
Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.
decisions minute time
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
again hope turn
Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn.