Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.T. S. Eliot
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.”
Poet and playwright · 1888 – 1965
Thomas Stearns Eliot, known as T. S. Eliot, was an American-born British poet and critic, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and is regarded as a central figure of modernist poetry.
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Source: Preface to Transit of Venus (1931) · ✓ Source verified
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