Eliot Quotes

What I usually hate about these movies when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you`re supposed to buy into all his "Let`s go do some good!" That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he`s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they`re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.

When I started reading Eliot, I really felt incredibly close to some of the things I read. I could feel this. It`s fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better. He would probably be my favorite poet. Some of it is really beautiful and sad, haunting. Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. (On T.S. Eliot)

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I`m not E.N., but I can promise you that I`m not Al Capone!

Pound`s translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

Mr. Spitzer has redefined the office of Attorney General. He has consistently supported working families, while also showing no fear in taking on Wall Street moguls and other big shots. He has fought hard on behalf of exploited workers and consumers. We firmly believe there is no better choice to lead New York State than Eliot Spitzer.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

I`m as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I`m much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.