I'd been meaning to do this for a long time, and finally I had half a chance and read a few of TS Eliot's poems. I'm glad I did. Beautiful poems, no doubt, but his quotes enraptured me. Sample these:
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
"Home is where one starts from. "
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "
I love stuff like this. I could cut and paste for a long time, but I think you get my point. Something beyond the usual pseudo- intellectual romantic longish rants that masquerade as poems. I guess they don't make them like him anymore.
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