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“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
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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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these”
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.”
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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.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot quotes (American born English Editor, Playwright, Poet and Critic, 1888-1965)
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
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“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”
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