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

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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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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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