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
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.
century
In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.
decisions minute time
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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.
again hope turn
Because I do not hope to turn again / Because I do not hope / Because I do not hope to turn.
british-author
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
air breaks descending dove flame
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of incandescent terror.
bald descend disturb indeed middle spot time turn
And indeed there will be time/ To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"/ Time to turn back and descend the stair,/ With a bald spot in the middle of my hair. . ./ Do I dare/ Disturb the universe?
genius talent stealing
Talent imitates, but genius steals.
world stills
...the still point in a turning world.
noise window should
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
rats jew
The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.
golf people balls
Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.