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Humanismus und Religion laufen, als historische Tatsachen, keineswegs parallel; der Humanismus tritt sporadisch auf, das Christentum kontinuierlich.
Informationen über Thomas Stearns Eliot
Dichter, Kritiker, "Das wüste Land", "Aschermittwoch", Nobelpreis für Literatur/1948 (England/USA, 1888 - 1965).
Thomas Stearns Eliot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Stearns Eliot wäre heute 135 Jahre, 6 Monate, 29 Tage oder 49.518 Tage alt.
Geboren am 26.09.1888 in Saint Louis
Gestorben am 04.01.1965 in London
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Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye Is underlined for emphasis; Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important . . . They do not mean to do harm . . . they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
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Here I am, an old man in a dry month Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
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Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning. Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.
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Home is where one starts from.
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.
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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
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Hurry up please it's time.
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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
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I gotta use words when I talk to you.
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I grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.
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I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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I think we are in rats' alley Where the dead men lost their bones.
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest- I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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In my beginning is my end.