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
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
communication simple reality
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.
reality humanity bears
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
real may turns
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
real views point-of-view
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
kindness reality atheism
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
real mean passion
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
teaching reality too-much
Humankind can't stand too much reality.
believe successful reality
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.
war reality ego
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
fall reality ideas
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
real poetry-is assertion
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
life dream real
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable? Then one is alone, and if one is alone Then lover and beloved are equally unreal And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.
questions steel surgeon wounded
The wounded surgeon plies the steel / That questions the distempered part.