John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal... soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: 'No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a coat of fur And a porpentine cat... And a wopsical hat: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! (Whether his mouth be open or shut).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Different as the two poets are in many ways, and though Frost conducted a kind of private war with Eliot, it is possible to discer...n interesting resemblances beneath the obvious contrasts. In both men the central theme is metaphysical desolation. Both poets are profoundly at odds with the current of secular optimism flowing from the Enlightenment through the nineteenth century. Frost's New England landscape, spare, hard, and usually unyield ing, inhabited by its declining Yankee stock, can be taken as an extended metaphor expressive of that desolation. In Frost's poetry the central persona or dramatic voice speaking the poems finds ways to live with that desolation. In Eliot's poetry the central persona lives through and finally beyond the desolation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, s...hy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's destination is not his destiny, Every country is home to one man... And exile to another. Where a man dies bravely At one with his destiny, that soil is his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let those who go home tell the same story of you: Of action with a common purpose, action... None the less fruitful if neither you nor we Know, until the moment after death What is the fruit of action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's destination is his own village, His own cooking fire, and his wife's cooking;... To sit in front of his own door at sunset And see his grandson, and his neighbour's grandson Playing in the dust together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the sc...riptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it shoul...d always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said "Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with," and it must be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »