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
men age world
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
people way
People find a way in which they can say something.
envy people envious
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.
life hands wind
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
adventure thinking people
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
artist immature aliens
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
organization humanity progress
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
thinking rose poet
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.
writing important littles
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
men artist perfect
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
intense-moments before-and-after burning
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
writing agony trying
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.
lonely people laughing
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
love self-esteem men
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.