For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

— T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), Dichter

Source: T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others (über goodreads, Wortlaut nicht gegengeprüft)

Topics: Time & Transience, Meaning & Identity, Loneliness & Abandonment

Occasions: For Reflection, Farewell & Funeral

T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) war ein in den USA geborener, in England wirkender Dichter, Dramatiker und Literaturnobelpreisträger, der 1927 zur anglikanischen Kirche konvertierte. Seine Dichtungen thematisieren die Sinnkrise der Moderne sowie christliche Motive von Buße und Erlösung, während frühe Werke und Vorträge wegen antisemitischer Passagen in der Kritik stehen. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine sprachlich präzise Auseinandersetzung mit Zeit, Ewigkeit, menschlicher Gebrochenheit und göttlicher Gnade in einer säkularen Welt.

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