Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Quote by TS Eliot

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

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...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest...

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost...

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,...

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

For last years words belong to last years language and next years words await another...

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...

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

It is good for a man not to touch a woman

It is good for a man not to touch a woman

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to...

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to...