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Feelings 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…
- In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
- 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.
- Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to…
- The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to…
- 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…
- The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which…
- 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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