Random Quote
Here's a proposal offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States whether born here or abroad should get to be a citizen until age 18 at which time each such resident has to take a test.
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.
Quotes By T. S. Eliot
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs rising or falling grasping...
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to...
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist...
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Poetry should help not only to refine the language of the time but to...
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As things are and as fundamentally they must always be poetry is not a...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.