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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 Let those who go home tell the same story of you: Of action with a common purpose, action... Quote Right
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Quote Left We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. Quote Right
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Quote Left Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. Quote Right
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Quote Left We shall never 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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Quote Left Human kind cannot bear much reality. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things