(1888–1965)
U.S.-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
source: Little Gidding in Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, 1971), 59.
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category: circle, exploration, knowledge, research
medium: Poetry
“Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.”
source: “Ash-Wednesday,” in T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991), 86.
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category: care, detachment, school of life
medium: Poetry
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language / And next year’s words await another voice.”
more infosource: “Little Gidding,” in The Waste Land and Other Poems (New York: Penguin, 2003), xxi.
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category: future, language, new year, past, words
medium: poetry
“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, and copulation, and death.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.”
source: “Fragment of the Agon,” Sweeney Agonistes in The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1952), 80–81.
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category: birth, brass tacks, death, life, sex
medium: play
via: my mom (Beverly Bader)
T. S. Eliot