"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." (<i>Lit… - T. S. Eliot

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)

new-beginnings new-year new-year-s-day
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About T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic. Noted for spiritual and religious themes in many of his poems, he converted from Unitarianism to Anglicanism in 1927.

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Birth Name: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Alternative Names: Eliot • T S Eliot • Thomas Eliot • T.S. Eliot
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Czesław Miłosz W. H. Auden Robert Frost Wisława Szymborska Emily Dickinson

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Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence … Words, strain,
Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.
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