Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Quote by TS Eliot

Topics: Communication Quotes, Poetry Quotes

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

The heart and the mind has the shortest distance but has the longest journey.

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be...

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...

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

This love is silent.

This love is silent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong...

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,...

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...

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the...

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

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.

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...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing...

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents...

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...