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
people evil done
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
funeral tickets done
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
years lasts done
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
done wanted turns
Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
british-author
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
age awful daring prudence surrender
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
decisions minute time
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
fare
Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.
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.
further
And we must think no further of you.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.