History Quote by Mark S. Smith

“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

“Moyers: {TS] Eliot speaks about the still point of the turning world, where motion and stasis are together, the hub where the movement of…

— Joseph Campbell

“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

“As we sincerely seek to understand and integrate these principles into our lives, I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of…

— RosettaBooks

“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if one wanted…

— Frank Kermode

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

— T. S. Eliot

“What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage…

— Blake Crouch

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language." At the…

— Peter S. Hawkins

“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez