Our high respect for a well read person is praise ... -T. S. Eliot

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Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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T. S. Eliot Quotes to Explore

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves....
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time....
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....
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing....
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely pe...
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly....
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the perm...
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are ...
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal....
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of...

Respect Quotes to Explore

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even ...
Everybody kept saying I wasn't going to get any fights. And they wouldn't put me on TV and they don't respect women's boxing. But I also turned profes...
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them....
A lot of people have that notion that it must have been easier for me because I had the Malik tag. But I don't feel it's right. With due respect to so...
Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything ...
People are entitled to their opinions and can do what they want to do, but just a little bit of respect goes a long way....
I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for the author. That was Robert Wil...
The thing about boxers is that there's respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that...
Undertaker certainly is a cornerstone of WWE, and just as I say to myself that I really would have liked to been able to get to know and certainly get...
We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quali...