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T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Thomas Stearns Eliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets." Born in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 at age 25 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. He attended prominent academies through his youth, eventually getting accepted into Harvard. His drive for education led him to the Sorbonne in Paris, France for a time as well, on his way to a Ph.D.


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Quote Left It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. Quote Right
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Quote Left Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information Quote Right
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Quote Left What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning. Quote Right
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Quote Left We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time Quote Right
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Quote Left This form, this face, this life Living to live in a world of time beyond me; let me... Quote Right
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