Poetry Quotes by T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot says that criticism belongs to the poem, not the poet. He describes how everyday life feels chaotic and how poetry can turn stolen ideas into a unique feeling. He also notes that poetry is an escape from emotion and personality, and that the world may end with a quiet whimper.
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.png)
![“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is…” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/t-s-eliot-633_bits_on-the-waste-land-various-critics-have-d_2387391.png)
