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

Quote by TS Eliot

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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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...

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

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

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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...

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Those who trust us educate us

Those who trust us educate us

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes.

No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes.