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T. S. Eliot Biography

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American passport.

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

Hooded, Mantle, Men, Road, Together, White

For you know only a heap of broken images

Broken, Broken Images, Heap, Know, Knows

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

Meant

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Creative, Critical, Limitations, Mind, Nation, Race

We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass

Door, Doors, Pass, Return, Twice

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

Communication, Death, Fire, Language

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Ignored, May, Situation, War

We must learn to suffer more.

Learn, Suffer, Suffering

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Church, Discipline, Permanent, Political, Relaxation, Revolution

I confess. . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

Ambition, Defeated, Ensue, Matter, Morning, Names

The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Cat, Effanineffable, Engaged, Names, Profound

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Different, Imitate, Immature, Make, Stealing Things

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

Done, Due, Inspirational, Mean, People, World

Every end is a beginning. . . And every beginning is an end.

Beginning, Ends

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Connect, I Can, Nothing, Waste Land, Wasteland

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

Home, Homes, Temple, Temples

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Childish, Done, Lasts, Years

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Faithless, Hands, Simple, Simplicity, Smile

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

Lightning, Unattended, Unseen, Waterfall, Winter

Home is where one starts from.

Educational, Home, Starts, Sweet Home

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