You are the music while the music lasts.
-- T. S. Eliot

 

 

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century."

Born: September 26, 1888, St. Louis Died: January 4, 1965, London Full name: Thomas Stearns Eliot Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Original ScoreMore Spouse: Valerie Eliot (m. 1957–1965), Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (m. 1915–1947)