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
knowledge lost wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
life lost
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
eternal hold seen
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
cannot great obtain
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
higher redeem unread vision
Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.
century
In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
brain brains dry thoughts
Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
bottoms grow shall trousers wear
I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
bright daughter feet moon mrs porter soda wash
O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.
intense-moments before-and-after burning
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
all-time
All time is unreedemable.
all-time ifs
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
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.
funeral tickets done
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.