T.S. Eliot:"Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate, With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion."
This was quoted to Walker Percy by his life long friend Shelby Foote. Foote continues:It's[the quote] profoundly true. Without the excitment this communicates, writing is not worth a grown man's time.
T.S. Eliot:"Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
ReplyDeleteFor the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate,
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion."
This was quoted to Walker Percy by his life long friend Shelby Foote.
Foote continues:It's[the quote] profoundly true. Without the excitment this communicates, writing is not worth a grown man's time.