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
century
In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
ends
It ends not with a bang, but a whimper.
clean clear stone wash
Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take stone from stone and wash them.
again hope turn
Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn.
accept impose offers strength terms
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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.
experience survive wait
The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and hat's an experience of incalculable value.
cool sat three tree white
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree / In the cool of the day.
ashamed decide integrity stick
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
cannot great obtain
It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
british-author difficult less life
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
higher redeem unread vision
Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.