T. S. Eliot Quotes
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
Oscar Hijuelos
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
L. E. Modesitt
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White
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For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
Peter Greenaway
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That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.
Ryan Adams
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
Barbara Bush
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The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.
Eric Greitens
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I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
Fred Korematsu
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot