Quotes by Eliot, T. S.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can >>

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, >>

I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the oth >>

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. >>

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Le >>

We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

Eliot, T. S.