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
rocks sea paint
Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
joy painful moments
This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
life pain play
In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
pain freedom liberty
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
art pain logic
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
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.