T. S. Eliot Quotes


Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?
Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
Then one is alone, and if one is alone
Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.


Citations

Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950, p. 138.

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T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
  • Born: September 26, 1888
  • Died: January 4, 1965
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.