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Thomas Stearns Eliot, was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there. He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American citizenship.

Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" , which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land , "The Hollow Men" , "Ash Wednesday" , and Four Quartets . He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

✵ 26. September 1888 – 4. January 1965   •   Other names Thomas S. Eliot, టి ఎస్ ఎలియట్
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T.S. Eliot Quotes

“[A] wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God.”

T.S. Eliot

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 62

God , Nature

“We may say that religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life.”

T.S. Eliot

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 61

Religion , Nature , Life

“It is not enthusiasm, but dogma, that differentiates a Christian from a pagan society.”

T.S. Eliot

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), Ch. IV, p. 59

“The division between those who accept, and those who deny, Christian revelation I take to be the most profound division between human beings.”

T.S. Eliot

"Revelation" (1937), in The Idea of a Christian Society and Other Writings (London: Faber and Faber, 1982), p. 168

“Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”

T.S. Eliot book The Rock

The Rock, Part I (1934)

Life , God , Knowledge , Wisdom