poet who wrote this is the way the world ends

The phrase "This is the way the world ends" is from the poem "The Hollow Men," written by T. S. Eliot. The full famous line is "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." This poem was published in 1925 and is one of Eliot's best-known works, reflecting themes of disillusionment and anticlimactic endings rather than dramatic conclusions. T. S. Eliot was a prominent modernist poet known for other major works like "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".