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
health consciousness young
The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.
five round
Here we go round the prickly pear / At five o'clock in the morning.
bottoms grow shall trousers wear
I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
far possibly risk
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
assurance hat low silk whom
One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
british-author failure fear man ought purpose sees
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
active atmosphere attending believe concentration finally great happen neither nor number passive poet practical resulting seem unite
We must believe that ''emotion recollected in tranquillity'' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not ''recollected'' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
cat except until wind
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
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.
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.
fare
Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.
age awful daring prudence surrender
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.