The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.

T.S. Eliot

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Borrowing and creativity Creativity Poetry

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Philip Massinger

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Methuen & Co., 1920.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays. Dover Publications, 1998.

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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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End of the world Decline of civilization Societal collapse

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T.S. Eliot
Source
The Hollow Men
Medium
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1925 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." Poems: 1909-1925. Faber and Gwyer, 1925, pt. 5.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 5.

Another quote from the 1920s

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic
Healing Suffering

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Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

Another quote about Creativity

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Inner turmoil Genius Creativity

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

Another quote from 1920

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

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Topic
Journalism

Author

Walter Lippmann
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "Journalism and the Higher Law." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.