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T. S. Eliot

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About T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimistic language, writing style, and verse structure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. He is also noted for his critical essays, which often re-evaluated long-held cultural beliefs.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Home is where one starts from.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.