Maxioms by T. S. Eliot
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.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They read more
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
