“What is that *smell*?" Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.” — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“Apenas aqueles que se arriscam a ir longe demais tem a chance de descobrir quão longe podem ir.” T. S. Eliot” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
“The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot” — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot” — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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 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
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
“This is my father’s story. I am writing it to find him. But to get where you’re going, you have to first… — niall williams Copy Share Image
“To have memory return is to find consciousness pervaded by a variety of identifications, all simultaneously composing and fragmenting a shared public… — Charles Altieri 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
“Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit 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
I began as a poet, moved to short fiction, then to novel writing, and, for the past twelve years, back to stories.… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And then last, but oh, so utterly first, came George Eliot. It was in the days when her cult was at its… — Jane Ellen Harrison 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
“Exactly. And what about you, Calliope...is everyone in your family named after a...what is it? A keyboard? An organ?" It's a steam-powered… — Heather Hepler 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
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
“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist,… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Eliot, huh?" she says. The thin fabric of her long T-shirt brushes my arm. "Is everyone in your family named for a… — Brad Barkley Copy Share Image
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