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
lonely horse winter
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.
order way quartets
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
inspirational funny graduation
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
world sensible constant
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.
experience quartets seems
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
grief grieving long
In life there is not time to grieve long.
boundaries ifs knows
If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.
personality poetry individual-talent
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,
birthday optimism today
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!
years lasts done
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
cat like-you enough
You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
unique originality cases
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
men expression genius
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
mean poetry may
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.