Art Quote by T. S. Eliot

“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary.…

— 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 experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences…

— T. S. Eliot

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live,…

— George Edward Woodberry

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

— David Whyte

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Anonymous

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry…

— Dylan Thomas

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with…

— Woodrow Wilson

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

— Marilynne Robinson

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch