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
boxers poet easier
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.
art poetry return
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
ignorance
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
men class body
The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
character passion causes
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
running crazy opposites
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
knowledge organized-life too-much-information
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
death dying life-is
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
quartets
Only through time time is conquered
men confusion perfect
Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.
age ruins nostalgia
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
intelligent intelligence crafts
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
wise rebellion know-how
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
done wanted turns
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done