Past Art Is Subject To

The Business Of The Poet Is Not To Find New Emotions, But To Use The Ordinary Ones And, In Working Them Up Into Poetry, To Express Feelings Which Are Not In Actual Emotions At All.

There Is, It Seems To Us, At Best, Only A Limited Value In The Knowledge Derived From Experience.

These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins

The Ordinary Man's Experience Is Chaotic, Irregular, Fragmentary. [he] Falls In Love Or Reads Spinoza, And These Two Experiences Have Nothing To Do With Each Other, Or With The Noise Of The Typewriter, Or The Smell Of Cooking; In The Mind Of The Poet These Experiences Are Always Forming New Wholes

For Last Year's Words Belong To Last Year's Language And Next Year's Words Await Another Voice.