Eliot Quotes

45 quotes by 40 authors

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S.… — Marcus Mumford
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last… — Paul Muldoon
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-threeâ€”and managed to… — David Markson
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness… — John Zerzan
Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al… — Robert Stack
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before itâ€™s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I… — Marcus Mumford
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So… — Matt Bors
One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I… — John Faso
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any… — Bill N. Lacy
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… — George Orwell
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems… — Gore Vidal
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the… — Marguerite Young
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting… — Bob Dylan
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to… — Alanis Morissette
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates

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