Quotes by Eliot, George

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of d >>

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blo >>

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom an >>

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. >>

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. >>

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

Eliot, George