Eliot – Quotes

I\\’m not a big

I’m not a big Austen reader. I wouldn’t say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot. Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don’t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, \”honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.\” Good to remember. Elif Safak

Love never dies a

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am … Read more

Eliot said that \\\”genuine

Eliot said that \”genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.\” What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text. Fred D’Aguiar

I would like to

I would like to work with Paul McCartney in the future. Or Brian Seltzer. But I guess like, like I said – I’m into The Strokes, like Ben Folds, Eliot Smith, the Beatles are my favorite, the Beach Boys, Queen. Drake Bell

There’s life for you.

There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. Dorothy Parker

The sad fact is

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t … Read more

It would be inappropiate,

It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your … Read more

Is T.S. Eliot the

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever? David Markson

As I’ve gotten older

As I’ve gotten older I’ve become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. David Duchovny