T. S. Eliot

American-British · 1888–1965

Nobel Prize-winning poet and critic whose works The Waste Land and Four Quartets defined literary modernism and explored spiritual crisis in the twentieth century.

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“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”

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“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,”

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“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”

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“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.”

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“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.”

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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

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