Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play…

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot”

— Dean Karnazes

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what…

— Gore Vidal

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not…

— Pankaj Mishra

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…

— T.S. Mathews

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

— Bill N. Lacy

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a…

— George Eliot

“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end.…

— Matt Bors

“The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     —George Eliot”

— Ann Brashares

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

— William Butler Yeats

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision,…

— Bob Dylan