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 not in actual emotions at all.


The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (ed. 1964)

T. S. Eliot Quotes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...