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
intense-moments before-and-after burning
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
fighting expectations victory
We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
rocks church failing
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.
birthday optimism today
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
life dream twilight
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
truth character facts
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
experience quartets seems
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
grief grieving long
In life there is not time to grieve long.
years lasts done
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
lonely horse winter
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.
order way quartets
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
personality poetry individual-talent
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,
boundaries ifs knows
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.
all-time
All time is unreedemable.