By: Muhamet Hamiti"I cannot imagine writing my own autobiography. It seems to me that those who can do so have led purely public and external lives, or those who can successfully conceal from themselves what they prefer not to know about themselves - there may be some people who can write about themselves because they are truly blameless and innocent. In my experience, there is much for which one cannot find words even in a confessional; much that springs from weakness, indecision, and timidity, from mere egocentrism rather than from a tendency to wickedness or cruelty, from error rather than from a bad nature."
TS Eliot (1888-1965) wrote thus in a letter of 1960 ('Instructions to my executors'), who had left words to become public 50 years after his death, or whenever his correspondence with his muse, the American Emily Hale, became public.
The exchange was made public at the beginning of this year (2020). Likewise Instructions to executors of Eliot's work.
Eliot was married twice (to Vivienne Haigh-Wood and to Valerie Fletcher), but not to Emily Hale, with whom he had fallen in love in 1912. 'Emily Hale would kill the poet in me', says Eliot, paradoxically.
(The full text of this autobiographical document by Eliot, in English, is: HERE)
