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
life men might
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
care praying hours
Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
reading exercise healthy
I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.
success failure entrepreneur
Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
love hope light
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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.