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
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.
There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
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