S Eliot Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
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
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
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
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov
April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too… — Barbara Kingsolver
i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover… — Brennan Manning
Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Donâ€™t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said,… — Elif Safak
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an… — Jeanette Winterson
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of… — Bob Dylan
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.… — Virginia Woolf
T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since.… — Penelope Mitchell

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