September 26: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from public figures, past and present, who were born on September 26.
Martin Heidegger, philosopher (September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976)
“Do we in our time have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the word ‘being’? Not at all.” —Martin Heidegger
Heidegger, Martin. “Being and Time.” Harper Perennial Modern Classics, July 22, 2008
“Inquiry, as a kind of seeking, must be guided beforehand by what is sought.” —Martin Heidegger
Heidegger, Martin. “Being and Time.” Harper Perennial Modern Classics, July 22, 2008
T.S. Eliot, poet and essayist (September 26, 1888–January 4, 1965)
“I began I think about the age of fourteen, under the inspiration of Fitzgerald’s ‘Omar Khayyam,’ to write a number of very gloomy and atheistical and despairing quatrains in the same style, which fortunately I suppressed completely—so completely that they don’t exist. I never showed them to anybody.” —T.S. Eliot
Hall, Donald. “T. S. Eliot, The Art of Poetry No. 1.” The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1959, https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4738/the-art-of-poetry-no-1-t-s-eliot
“One wants to get something off one’s chest. One doesn’t know quite what it is that one wants to get off the chest until one’s got it off.” —T.S. Eliot
Hall, Donald. “T. S. Eliot, The Art of Poetry No. 1.” The Paris Review, Spring-Summer 1959, https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4738/the-art-of-poetry-no-1-t-s-eliot
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