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
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Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living?
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And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.
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After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.
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Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree / In the cool of the day.
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.