T.S.Eliot Poetry Quotes

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What did T.S.Eliot say about Poetry?

T.S.Eliot has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by T.S.Eliot?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by T.S.Eliot.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
  • 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.
  • 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 should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.