Banter Quote by Keith R.A. DeCandido

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

— T.S. Eliot

“--here, now, always-- T.S. Eliot”

— Sylvia Shaw Judson

“Dude is that was a Shakespeare quote duel, he just kicked your ass." Oberon I know, but I slipped in some T.S.Eliot and he…

— Kevin Hearne

“I started this chapter with some lines from T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” that I’ve always loved:”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating…

— Billy Collins

“He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course,…

— Cora Carmack

“I'd just smashed someone's head in with a cast-iron skillet, and now this gorgeous, enigmatic man was speaking poetry to me. Finding someone who…

— Natalie Bennett

“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain,…

— Don DeLillo

“I examined every detail under a magnifying glass without once finding the slightest clue. And in doing so I always felt the piercing inquiring…

— W.G. Sebald

“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines…

— Margaret Atwood

“I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through…

— Margaret Atwood