Quotes by Eliot, T. S.

You are the music while the music lasts. >>

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the >>

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of >>

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, b >>

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. >>

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

Eliot, T. S.