Vi skal ikke slutte å utforske. Og formålet med all vår utforskning, er å ende der vi startet og kjenne stedet for første gang.
Four Quartets (1943).
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Nasjonalitet: amerikansk-engelsk
Tittel: forfatter og litteraturkritiker
Levde: 1888 - 1965
Eliots største og mest kjente verk er diktet The Waste Land. Han mottok Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1948.