Experience Quote by T. S. Eliot

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

— Anonymous

“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

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— T.S Eliot

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

“Poetry is pure thoughts.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?”

— Mark Doty

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

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

“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