T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

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It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

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What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

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A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

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Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

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