Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Things

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.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about things

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 things

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about things