Poetry Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.”

— Guideposts

“--here, now, always-- T.S. Eliot”

— Sylvia Shaw Judson

I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where…

— Marcus Mumford

“Each day a raid on the inarticulate--T.S. Eliot”

— T.S. Eliot

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…

— Penelope Mitchell

“Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet." Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything." "Says the…

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many of their…

— Terry Eagleton

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different. I read…

— Jeanette Winterson

“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

— Robert Morgan

“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist, phenomenologist, structuralist,…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the…

— Jewel Spears Brooker