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
age awful daring prudence surrender
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
beyond clutch expert found seize substitute
Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and penetrate; / Expert beyond experience.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
below saw second shape turned turning twisted
At the first turning of the second stair / I turned and saw below / The same shape twisted on the banister.
beyond communication dead death fire language speech
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
further
And we must think no further of you.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
fog rubs yellow
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
door echo memory opened passage regret towards
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
door echo opened passage towards
Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.
eternal hold seen
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
family finds light lived looked love vocabulary within
There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
questions steel surgeon wounded
The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
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.