T. S. Eliot Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Feelings Quotes

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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The poetry of speech.

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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

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Poets are born, not paid.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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