• Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog

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
Find more on
1

Themes

EmotionPoet

Related Quotes

  • Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
  • It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been...
  • All the poets wanted to get disability insurance it was better than immortality.

Related Books

The Waste LandMurder in the CathedralThe Myth of SisyphusThe White AlbumA Room of One's OwnNakedCivil Disobedience
T. S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes
  • Book: Tradition and the Individual Talent
  • Writer: T. S. Eliot
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1919
  • More on:
  • About Us
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact
© 2013-2026 MagicalQuote
  • Movies
  • TV Shows
  • Books
  • Authors
  • Blog