T. S. Eliot Quotes, Mean Quotes, Poetry Quotes

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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