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
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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.
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Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.
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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.