Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have… — Matt Bors Copy Share Image
“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did… — Bill N. Lacy Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at… — David Markson Copy Share Image
George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
