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Letter "T" » T.S. Eliot Quotes
«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.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
apprehensible, ceasing, grasp, ordinarily, transformed
«Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.»
«What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Loneliness,
Trust
| Keywords:
distrust, distrusted, distrusts, loneliness, lonely
«Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Anxiety
| Keywords:
anxiety, maiden, the Hand
«That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?»
«If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.»
«It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
deceit, deficiencies, detects, feminine
«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.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Doubt,
Imagination
| Keywords:
exalts, pierces, undoubtedly
«The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.»
«Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Hell
| Keywords:
figures, projection, projections
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