American - Poet | September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
T. S. Eliot
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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