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?
questions steel surgeon wounded
The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
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.
five round
Here we go round the prickly pear / At five o'clock in the morning.
ashamed decide integrity stick
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
fare
Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.
decisions minute time
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.