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
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We must believe that ''emotion recollected in tranquillity'' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not ''recollected'' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
time tired action
The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
action
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
moving believe our-actions
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
action one-time
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
entertainment joke listen medium millions people permits remain television
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
higher redeem unread vision
Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.
editors failed suppose
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
ashamed decide integrity stick
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
cannot great obtain
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
mess success
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.