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
T. S. Eliot quotes about
life love-is desire
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being.
worst-moments desire wish
That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
thinking agony desire
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
long desire life-is
life is long between the desire and the spasm.
love past desire
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
information knowledge lost wisdom
Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
knowledge lost wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
life lost
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
higher redeem unread vision
Redeem / The time. Redeem / The unread vision in the higher dream.
entertainment joke listen medium millions people permits remain television
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
editors failed suppose
I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
mess success
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
conviction degree everyday experience individual measured moral progress suffering sympathize
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
cool sat three tree white
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree / In the cool of the day.