Thomas Stearns Eliot:
(Saint Louis (Missouri), 26 September 1888 – London, 4 January 1965).
American-British poet, playwright, cultural philosopher and literary critic. He was one of the most important figures in 20th-century literature and one of the greatest innovators of poetry, receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
April is the cruellest month.
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one’s life.
