T. S. Eliot Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Literature Quotes

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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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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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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Poetry should only occupy the idle.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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There were poets before Homer.

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It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

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One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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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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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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