Tag: T. S. Eliot
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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
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It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot