This love is silent.

About T. S. Eliot

Portrait of T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his writing style, verse structure and use of pessimistic language. Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in...

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

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Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

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