Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Nothing

3 quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about nothing

Thomas Stearns Eliot English poet, dramatist and literary critic

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot...

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own...

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