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
light generosity dancing
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
helping language should
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
death years dying
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
art sacrifice self
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
art personality produce
No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.
order way quartets
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
art oxygen poetry
When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.
hope meditation waiting
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
love memories garden
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
inspirational music fear
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
years different emotion
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
knowledge technology information
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
love struggle strange
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.