T. S. Eliot Quotes, Death Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Why then we should drop into poetry.

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

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

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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

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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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Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.

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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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