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
new-beginnings tunnels new-start
The end is where we start from.
food cheese firsts
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
running opposites independence
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
light invisible reminders
Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
men old-man explorers
Old men ought to be explorers.
ends
To make an end is to make a beginning.
fall reality ideas
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
reading poetry-is ifs
We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
mean paradox relative
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
blood theatre producers
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
doors way may
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
real poetry-is assertion
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
games careers may
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
beach not-wasting-time enjoyed
At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.