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
exercise people influence
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
time past quartets
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
love life romantic
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
letting-go time acceptance
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
inspirational mean people
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
art mean expression
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
survival shame
Survival is your strength not your shame.
life dream real
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
inspirational life motivational
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
humility thinking self
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
inspirational funny life
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
rocks church failing
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.
behave
To become what you are not, behave as you do not.
inspirational life motivational
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.