27 result(s) for Eliot Quotes On Modernity.
"It is the job of poetics to overcome the limitations of language, to transform 'modernity' from a term of despair to a term of hope."
"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
"There is no Order of the Universe if there is no Order in the human mind to perceive it."
"We are the hollow men, we are the stuffed men."
"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
"The most important thing for poets and for all artists is to achieve the kind of intimacy that allows us to experience things beyond distraction."
"Only those who will risk going too far can find out how far one can go."
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"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past."
"The idea of a 'modern society' is one to which all the arts must respond."
"Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement."
"The man who is young in heart lives in possibility."
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
"The experience of modernity is also the experience of fragmentation."
"To make an end is to make a beginning."
"Words, which are the most powerful means of communication, have become a medium of manipulation in modernity."
"In a world of chaos, the artist is the only one who can find the right balance and order."
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
"The very existence of modern poetry is a response to the conditions of modern life."
"The poet's job is to be a kind of culture critic; to examine society’s changes in the light of their impact on human experience."
"Just we cannot bring back the past, neither can we create a new time."
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"We are all the time changing and evolving when we are in a modern context."
"In the world of modernity, the human soul must struggle to find its place."
"A world with no tradition is a world without reality."
"The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing; the only certainty is in knowing everything is uncertain."
"What we call modernity is nothing more than a fracture of time that reveals our perennial human struggles."
"In modern life, the senses are dulled by the numbing pace of existence."
