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Feeling Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.
- Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.
- I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in…
- With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of…
- The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
- When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
- Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get…
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