T. S. Eliot Quotes About Writing
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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