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Writing Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
- 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…
- Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
- What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few…
- 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…
- If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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