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
arrest blank chinese suffered verse wall
After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.
brain brains dry thoughts
Tenants of the house, / Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.
birth hour pray
Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
entertainment joke listen lonesome medium millions people permits radio remain
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
edge river sea within
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
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.
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.
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.
cannot great obtain
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
five round
Here we go round the prickly pear / At five o'clock in the morning.
british-author difficult less life
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
ashamed decide integrity stick
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.