Quote by T.S. Eliot
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. - T.S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

Other quotes by T.S. Eliot

Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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Perspective
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

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Decisions
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

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Writing
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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

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Writing

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “All Trivia,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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Writing

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writing

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something. – Woodrow Wilson

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A good book has no ending. – R.D. Cumming

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Hes a novice, but hes had these – hes experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started – he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. – James Stockdale

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Every smile makes you a day younger. – Chinese Proverb

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