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
again hope turn
Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn.
hope men eagles
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
hope turns
Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn
hope men library
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
hope taken men
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
love hope light
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
hope lying fire
The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
hope meditation waiting
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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.