5 quotes
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
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.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
It is not the "greatness," the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)