Essays on Elizabethan Drama Quotes

“About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.”
― T.S. Eliot, Essays on Elizabethan Drama

“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which is a task in the same sense as the making of an efficient engine or the turning of a jug or a table-leg.”
― T.S. Eliot, Essays on Elizabethan Drama

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he does not trespass: on the one hand actual life is always the material, and on the other hand an abstraction from actual life is a necessary condition to the creation of the work of art.”
― T.S. Eliot, Essays on Elizabethan Drama