T. S. Eliot
American-British · 1888–1965
Nobel Prize-winning poet and critic whose works The Waste Land and Four Quartets defined literary modernism and explored spiritual crisis in the twentieth century.
Wikipedia ↗“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
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“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,”
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The Waste Land ↗ (1922)
“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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The Hollow Men ↗ (1925)
“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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