Chinese Quote by Robert Morgan

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…

— T.S. Mathews

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind…

— Robert Hass

“It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular.

— Claire Messud

“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

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

— Stephen Dobyns

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

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

“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

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it…

— Clive James

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

— Howard Nemerov