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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (1888-1965) was an American-born British poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor. He is considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.

Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied at Harvard University. He moved to England in 1914 and became a British citizen in 1927.

Eliot's most famous works include The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

Eliot was a complex and controversial figure, but he is undoubtedly one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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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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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.

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We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

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Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

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There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

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