Language Quote by 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

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

“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

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed…

— David Markson

“ 'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot…

— Max Barry

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

“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 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

“He felt at loose ends with himself like a man in a foreign city where he didn’t know the language. He felt out of…

— William Miller

“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time.…

— Paulo Coelho

“Pity he had few brains and very little style. She was wondering why no scientist had yet invented social skills in an injectable form…

— Kerry Greenwood