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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality the two basic ideas of democracy are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered freedom and equality are mutually exclusive just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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.