“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot” — Al Kavadlo Copy Share Image
“It's never too late to be the person you might have been. ~George Eliot” — A.J. Warner Copy Share Image
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov 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
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. —T. S. Eliot” — Scott Parazynski Copy Share Image
“Every writer owes something to Holmes." -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929” — T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot 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
“What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down… — Blake Crouch 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
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said -… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
“Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet." Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything."… — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“He'd basically fallen in love with her on the spot. Well, no, that wasn't accurate; that implied a binary state, a shifting… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of… — Lee Edelman Copy Share Image
I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford 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
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
“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… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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