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Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes

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. - T. S. Eliot (Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes)

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.

Source:in The Sacred Wood (ed. Methuen & Co., 1920), Page 52
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T. S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes
  • Book: Tradition and the Individual Talent
  • Writer: T. S. Eliot
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1919
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