

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
Traced to Dante (1929).
More from T.S. Eliot
“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest — for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
T.S. Eliot
Notes on Some Figures behind T. S. Eliot
likely“We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that it will triumph.”
T.S. Eliot
Francis Herbert Bradley · 1936
verified“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T.S. Eliot
Choruses from The Rock · 1934
verified“This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper.”
T.S. Eliot
The Hollow Men · 1925
verified“April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land · 1922
verified“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock · 1915
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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts · 1941
verified“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”
Maya Angelou
Paris Review Interview · 1990
verified“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
Conversations with Maya Angelou · 1989
verified“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889
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