There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T. S. EliotRead
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.
Interpretation
Poetry channels emotions rather than simply expressing them rawly.
T. S. Eliot emphasizes that poetry serves as a means to transcend raw emotions, allowing poets and readers to transform and distance themselves from their feelings. Instead of being overwhelmed by passion, poetry provides a structured form that helps to shape and convey these emotions in a thoughtful and artistic manner.
In practice
This quote can be used in a lecture on the role of poetry in emotional expression.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
For I have known them all already, known them allβ Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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