T S Eliot
T S Eliot (1888 – 1965), full name Thomas Stearns Eliot, born in USA but became a naturalised British citizen, was an English poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. He is one of the greatest poets and critics of 20th century.
Wisdom & Quotes
- This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. - The Hollow Men
- We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw, Alas!
- The Hollow Men
- “For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.” ― Four Quartets
- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
- “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
- April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
- The Waste Land
- In my beginning is my end.
- East Coker
- Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.
- Ash Wednesday
- The number of people in possession of any criteria for discriminating between good and evil is very small.
- Virginia lectures, 1933
- Hell is oneself.
- The Cocktail Party
- History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
- This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
- The Hollow Men
- Home is where one starts from.
- East Coker
- I grow old... I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
- The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
- Any man might do a girl in
Any man has to, needs to wants to
Once in a lifetime, do a girl in.
- Sweeney Agonistes
- Birth, copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
- Sweeney Agonistes
- A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year.
- Journey of the Magi
- Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rosegarden.
- Burnt Norton in Four Quartets
- Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
- Burnt Norton in Four Quartets
- 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 of that particular emotion.
- Hamlet
- Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
- The Cocktail Party
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- Dante
- Humankind
Cannot bear very much reality.
- Murder in the Cathedral