More From T. S. Eliot
- "Business today consists in persuading crowds."
- "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "I’m not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well."― Andrew Motion
- "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can’t be much to it."― James Schuyler
- "I think I’m a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I’m not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn’t work and why."― Diane Wakoski