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
greatness literature determined
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
catholic literature classicists
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
religion literature littles
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
blood literature ink
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
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The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
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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.
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And we must think no further of you.
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Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
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Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
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O the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter / And on her daughter / They wash their feet in soda water.
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Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.