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
past quartets
The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.
ends quartets
And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.
simplicity quartets conditions
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
order way quartets
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
experience quartets seems
There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
quartets
Only through time time is conquered
past times-past quartets
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
order way quartets
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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.
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.