Quotes by Eliot, T. S.

Our emotions are only incidents in the effort to keep day and night to >>

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. >>

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always be >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

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

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and >>

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring elect >>

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

Eliot, T. S.