This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T. S. Eliot

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This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

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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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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again.
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