All T. S. Eliot Quotes
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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