«Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened»
T.S. Eliot*
* (St. Louis, MO, U.S. 26-Sep-1888 / Kensington, London, England 4-Jan-1965).
Essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century's major poets. He emigrated to England in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry."