InspiringQuotes

T. S. Eliot Quotes:

Ocupation: Playwright

Life: September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

Birthday: September 26

Death: January 4

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.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.953, Faber & Faber

topic: Feelings, Ordinary, Use, Individual Talent

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