T. S. Eliot Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Writing, Poetry

  1929 Dante.

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  T. S. Eliot

  Witty, Humorous, Writing

• If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Bangs, Ends

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Writing, Silence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Agony, Trying

• An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Editing, Editors

• Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Running, Writing, May

• Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Important, Littles

  "Letters of T. S. Eliot. Volume 7: 1934–1935".

• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Writing, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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