American - Poet | September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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April is the cruellest month.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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In my beginning is my end.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
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