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
beyond communication dead death fire language speech
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
death eye vanity
There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
death skulls skins
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
dust absence fear-of-death
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
life death dying
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
life life-death can-not
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
death hands way
Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.
death communication fire
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
death running laughter
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
men law life-and-death
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
death dying life-is
It is worth dying to find out what life is.
death dance recovery
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
death different birth
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
death poetry religion
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.