Mastery Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mastery
But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING. — Kenny Werner Copy Share Image
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible! — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both. — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for… — Harlow Curtice Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image