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
voice singing emptiness
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
basketball individual-talent want
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
life moving dark
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise.
moments difficulty permanent
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
action one-time
What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.
journey matter destination
The journey, Not the destination matters...
struggle way where-you-are
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
patterns world complicated
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
long desire life-is
life is long between the desire and the spasm.
forever religion essentials
Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
creativity hands creative
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
art pain logic
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
lessons
Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.
window-panes faces
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.