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
voice speak awareness
They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
voice poetry humans
Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.
heart sea voice
And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.
faith inspiration voice
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
girl sea voice
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
voice singing emptiness
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
british-author
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
age awful daring prudence surrender
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.
decisions minute time
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
fare
Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.
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.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
hair hear latest pole transmit
To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.