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T. S. Eliot

US-British poet

1888–1965

49 quotes, most often on Poetry, Life & Death and Courage. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)
- Poetry
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919), Part II
- Poetry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
“Dante” (1929), in Selected Essays (1932), p. 238
- Poetry
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
- Poetry
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
- Poetry
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), Line 1In context
- Poetry
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919), Part II
- Poetry

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