The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Art Quotes, Personality Quotes

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it...

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored...

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening...

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be...

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man...

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent...

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

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

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

For I have known them all already, know them all -- have known the evenings,...

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as...

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as...

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state,...