Source: Essays of Four Decades
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Source: Essays of Four Decades
“Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.”
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“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”
Source: Essays of Four Decades
“Men expect too much, do too little.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”
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“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”
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Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.”
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“The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
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“Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.”
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Source: T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work
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“Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.”
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“Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.”
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“What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.”
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“We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.”
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“The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.”
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