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Letter "T" » T.S. Eliot Quotes
«Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.»
«The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. Dante's is one of those that one can only just hope to grow up to at the end of life.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Dante, outgrow, outgrows, outlives
«Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Encouragement,
Excellence,
Motivation
| Keywords:
The Spiritual
«No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; / Am an attendant lord.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attendant, attendants, hamlet, Hamlets
«The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Personality
| Keywords:
continual, extinction, self-sacrifice
«After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrest, blank, blank verse, Chinese, Chinese Wall, erection, erections, Milton, retrogression, verse
«Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
biting, sever, severed, severing, severs
«Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
alarm, boldly, eager, knee, reassured, retreating, tables
«Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.»
«The clock has stopped in the dark.»
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