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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 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. 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 What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow, Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. Quote Right
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Quote Left In a minute there is time for decisons and revisions which a minute will reverse. 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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Book: Shattered Sighs