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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.
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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
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Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.
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