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.
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.
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And we must think no further of you.
birth hour pray
Pray for us now and at the hour of our birth.
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Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome