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

Quote by TS Eliot

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one...

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...

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...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find...

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

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

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

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

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after -...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought...

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

Poetry is adjectives expressed in nouns

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains...

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains...