T. S. Eliot Quotes about Age

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Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

T. S. Eliot

Mean, Men, Age

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

T. S. Eliot

Age, Talent

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

T. S. Eliot

Age, Ruins, Nostalgia

The Waste Land l. 431 (1922)

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

T. S. Eliot

Men, Age, World

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

T. S. Eliot

Birthday, Optimism, Age

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

T. S. Eliot

Heart, Blood, Age

The Waste Land l. 404 (1922)