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
memories men forget
Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
heart silence want
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
pride people important
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
past littles consciousness
Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
men kind
With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting
definitions hell
The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.
cracks burden break
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
men harder labor
The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
negative nasty
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.