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
life pain play
In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
serious sawdust muttering
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
night thinking nerves
My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
feelings use individual-talent
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
laughter
His laughter tinkled among the teacups.
benefits culture should
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
appreciation art generations
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.
eye firsts deceit
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
knowledge men littles
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
names toilets anagrams
My name is only an anagram of toilets.
people way
People find a way in which they can say something.
ignorance dust ideas
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
motivational thought-provoking humiliation
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.
suffering fancy gentle
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.