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
art thinking play
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
temptation deeds lasts
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
wells
not fare well, but fare forward
thinking want what-you-want
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
inspirational new-year new-beginnings
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
light darkness glory
The darkness declares the glory of the light.
fall philosophical shadow
Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
time past might
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
believe exposed humans
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
book said knows
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
self errors judging
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
philosophy effort understanding
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
communication writing poetry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
attitude creativity giving
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.