Experience Quote by T.S. Eliot

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

— T. S. Eliot

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences…

— T. S. Eliot

“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and transcendent stages…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

— Virginia Woolf

“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as the progression…

— Frank L. DeSilva

The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is…

— Campbell McGrath

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson