T. S. Eliot
# T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot ou Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 de setembro de 1888 - 4 de janeiro de 1965), foi um poeta, dramaturgo e crítico literário estadunidense.
       - What might have been and what has been. Point to one end, which is always present
          - Prufrock and Other Observations and THE DIARIES OF FORTUNE‎ - página 30, T. S. Eliot and Daniel Oldis, KayDreams, ISBN 1603038345, 9781603038348
       - Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
          - Citado em "The Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly", Volume 4‎ - Página 3, Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration - School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University., 1963
       - the poem, which is a process of exploration, an effort to circle the object which is its focus, and return to the starting point with a fuller comprehension of it
          - Citado em "T. S. Eliot: poems in the making"‎ - Página 185, Gertrude Patterson - Manchester University Press, 1971, ISBN 038904086X, 9780389040866 - 198 páginas
       - Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
          - Citado em "Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger”, The Sacred Wood".
       - T. S. Eliot, como citado em Origens: catorze biliões de anos de evolução cósmica [recurso eletrônico] / Neil deGrasse Tyson e Donald Goldsmith; tradução de Rosaura Eichenberg. - São Paulo: Planeta do Brasil, 2015. p 293.