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
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.
meaningful running destiny
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.
ends
To make an end is to make a beginning.
all-time ifs
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
ignorance
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
experience different form
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
time winter journey
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.
rain boys men
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
funeral tickets done
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
moments shocking
Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.
journey littles blind
The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
feelings felt
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
heart silence want
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
enough born
I've been born, and once is enough.