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.
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.
questions steel surgeon wounded
The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.
edge river sea within
The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
beyond communication dead death fire language speech
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.
further
And we must think no further of you.
birth hour pray
Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.