T. S. Eliot rename

• Business today consists in persuading crowds.

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

• It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion…

• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

• T. S. Eliot

  

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  Date of birth:

  Sep 26, 1888

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  Country of nationality:

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  • United States of America,
  • England

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  Profession:

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  • Writer,
  • Playwright,
  • Poet,
  • Literary critic

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  Date of death:

  Jan 4, 1965

  Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965) was a poet, playwright, and literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914...

• Modernist poetry in English

  

  Modernist poetry in English is generally considered to have emerged in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of...

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...

• The Waste Land

  

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  Date of first publication:

  1922

  The Waste Land is a 434 line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite what is seen by some as the poem's obscurity – its shifts between satire and prophecy,...

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