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
noise window should
We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
should-have sea pairs
I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
information should
We should not confuse information with knowledge.
friendship biting should
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
benefits culture should
A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.
risk curious should
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
jealous pay should
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
body speak should
So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
helping language should
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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.