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
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
running home world
In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away
friendship biting should
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
thinking smell speech
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
doors return
We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass
ignorance order way
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
joy painful moments
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
rain boys men
Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
funeral tickets done
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
car familiar motor-cars
All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
experience different form
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
men car ribbons
and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
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.
men soul creation
The soul of Man must quicken to creation.