Quotes about Affair by Thomas Stearns Eliot

2 quotes about Affair by Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot English poet, dramatist and literary critic

Business today consists in persuading crowds

Business today consists in persuading crowds

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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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