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
cat except until wind
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind changes.
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We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open
hands window-panes yellow
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.
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Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
time window-panes murder
There will be time to murder and create.
life hands wind
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
window-panes faces
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
cat wind done
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
act falls motion reality
Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.
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We must believe that ''emotion recollected in tranquillity'' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not ''recollected'' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
far possibly risk
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
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One of the low on whom assurance sits / As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.