Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Emotions

3 quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about emotions

Thomas Stearns Eliot English poet, dramatist and literary critic

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about emotions

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about emotions

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

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