“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”
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Thomas Stearns Eliot was an American poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.[3] His first notable publication, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915, is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement.[4] It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Order of Merit in 1948. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
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“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”
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“When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.”
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“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.”
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“The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are pre...”
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“Poetry is a mug's game.”
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
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“Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.”
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“I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.”
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“An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.”
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“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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“For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
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“There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.”
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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith...”
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“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
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“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.”
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“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
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“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”
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“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
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“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”
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