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?
cannot great obtain
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
eternal hold seen
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
all-time
All time is unreedemable.
funeral tickets done
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
stealing poet great-poet
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
aptitude study educated
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
social-media distraction distracted
Distracted from distraction by distraction
drinking hands tea
Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.
bottles events unexpected
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...
drinking drug gin
Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
bridges crowds london
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
months classic april
April is the cruellest month.