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Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965) was a poet, dramatist and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", and Four Quartets, are considered defining achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, he is considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your comments or consult wikipedia
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
Eliot, T. S. on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers."
Eliot, T. S. on Editing and Editors
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"Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night together."
Eliot, T. S. on Emotions
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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
Eliot, T. S. on Fear
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"Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison."
Eliot, T. S. on Freedom
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"Friendship should be more than biting time can sever."
Eliot, T. S. on Friends and Friendship
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
Eliot, T. S. on Futility
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"The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract."
Eliot, T. S. on Impulse
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"In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
Eliot, T. S. on Indecision
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"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
Eliot, T. S. on Influence
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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information."
Eliot, T. S. on Information
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"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."
Eliot, T. S. on Insanity
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"The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying."
Eliot, T. S. on Life and Living
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"Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks."
Eliot, T. S. on Life and Living
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"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter."
Eliot, T. S. on Love
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"There is no method but to be very intelligent."
Eliot, T. S. on Methods
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"You are the music while the music lasts."
Eliot, T. S. on Music
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"All cases are unique and very similar to others."
Eliot, T. S. on Originality
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."
Eliot, T. S. on Past
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"What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them."
Eliot, T. S. on People, Other
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