Name	T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
Date of Birth	September 26, 1888
Birthplace	St. Louis, MO
Star Sign	Libra
Died	January 4, 1965 (Aged 77)
Cause of Death	emphysema
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Religion	Anglican/Episcopalian
High School	Smith Academy, St. Louis, MO High School: Milton Academy, MA
University	Sorbonne (one year) MA, Harvard University (1906-10) Harvard University (1911-14)
Occupation	Author
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Claim to Fame	The Hollow Men
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Quotes

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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I don`t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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In my end is my beginning.

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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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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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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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For last year`s words belong to last year`s language and next year`s words await another voice.

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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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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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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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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Trivia

His second wife was thirty-eight years younger than he. She was his personal secretary for seven years before they married

His first wife, a Cambridge governess, was named Vivienne, but she preferred to spell her name Vivien. They separated in 1933. In 1938 she was committed to a mental hospital, where she lived until her death in 1947. Eliot never visited her there.

Most famous as the author of two rather difficult poems which have become literary classics, `The Waste Land` (1922) and `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock` (1917).

One of the most famous and celebrated poets of the twentieth century.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

Became a British subject in 1927.

Appointed a Member of the Order of Merit in 1948.

Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 26 September 1986 (98th anniversary of his birth).

Was awarded the 1948 Nobel prize in literature.

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