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
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The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
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To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
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Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
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We must believe that ''emotion recollected in tranquillity'' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not ''recollected'' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
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One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.