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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

T. S. Eliot

Difficulties

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

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Blood

Public

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Editors

Writers

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

So the lover must struggle for words.

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Struggle

Words

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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Negative

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Unconscious

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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Knowledge

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

T. S. Eliot