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
choices way
Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
art crafts way
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
fashion leaving way
That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.
evil way paradoxical
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
loneliness mean way
Each way means loneliness -- and communion.
death hands way
Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.
ignorance order way
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
people way
People find a way in which they can say something.
order way quartets
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
struggle way where-you-are
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
doors way may
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
funny humorous way
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
order way quartets
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
simple way-to-live life-is
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.