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
past quartets
The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
time past mind
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
past historical perception
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
time past escaping
Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
past hints half
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
art past art-is
Past art is subject to change.
past silence would-be
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
healing past vitality
Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
past times-past quartets
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
time past might
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
love past desire
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
philosophical past action
And right action is freedom From past and future also.
time past quartets
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
past littles consciousness
Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.