More From 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."
- "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
- "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
More In Art
- "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."― Ansel Adams
- "For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."― Thomas Bulfinch
- "The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."― Susan Sontag