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
adversity hard-times entrepreneur
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
trouble curtains up-and-down
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
love cruelty
Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.
long notes please
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
journey ends
Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.
believe sacrifice birth
I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
aptitude study educated
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
experience
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
simple way-to-live life-is
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.
taken darkness speak
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.
believe cat names
I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
names toilets anagrams
My name is only an anagram of toilets.
inspirational life beautiful
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
singing moonlight grass
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing