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
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.
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.