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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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
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When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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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.
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Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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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.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.