Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Things

3 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.

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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...

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

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

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