Important Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Important Poetry Writing
Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
![“[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.” quote by Nikki Giovanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27b/nikki-giovanni-1757_add_to-become-a-poet-the-most-important-thin_189198.jpg)
![“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 each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.jpg)
