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.
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.
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.
time past quartets
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
time people patterns
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.
time please
Hurry up, please, its time.
stealing poet great-poet
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
time past might
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.