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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets." Born in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.

Home is where one starts from.
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
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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?
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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