T. S. Eliot Crafts Quotations

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.