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U.S. born British poet and playwright remembered for such poems as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1888-1965)- T.S. Eliot was twenty-five when he moved from the United States to England.
- And for a long time I thought it was when you quoted T. S. Eliot.John Green -- Paper Towns
- As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- But Lena's voice was pounding in my head. this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper Lena reciting T. S. Eliot was not a good sign.Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
- "Hints and guesses," as T. S. Eliot would say.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- The other books were by T. S. Eliot and Steinbeck.Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
- My English lit teacher, Mr. Lensing, was standing over me, a well-worn copy of T. S. Eliot's collected poems in his hand.Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
- Henry, Dreiser, H. G. Wells, Gogol, T. S. Eliot, Gide, Baudelaire, Edgar Lee Masters, Stendhal, Turgenev, Huneker, Nietzsche, and scores of others?Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- [Enter SECOND TEMPTER] 888 T. S. ELIOT Second Tempter.T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral
- T. S. Eliot said that when a new work is created, it is set among the monuments, adding to and altering the order.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Piedmont learned that he had not sent me to Yamacraw to preside over an intellectual wasteland with all due acknowledgments to T. S. Eliot.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- T. S. Eliot once wrote, "I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing."Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.T.S. Eliot -- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Simply opening a text to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and seeing the word "April" did the trick, because that was the month in which Rwanda's genocide had begun.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- Emmart had had a distinguished career at the Sun and was now a highly esteemed editorial writer and a close student of T. S. Eliot, on whose poetry he had spoken in our writing course.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- The Waste Land — T.S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.T.S. Eliot -- The Waste Land
- I. ONE AND THE SAME civilization produces simultaneously two such different things s a poem by T. S. Eliot and a Tin Pan Alley song, or a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover.Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
- There seem to be large gaps in my memory, and I know the gaps are there thanks to this incredible mind machine we have that filters pain, protects us, that knows, as T. S. Eliot knew: "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."Kaye Gibbons -- My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves
- In 1921 the distinguished literary magazine The Dial awarded him its first annual literary prize of $2,000, the significance of which is perhaps best understood if one also knows that the second recipient was T. S. Eliot.Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
- T. S. Eliot said something to the same effect in accounting for the shortcomings of English Romantic poetry.Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
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