T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Unique Quotes

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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

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When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

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Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

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Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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