T. S. Eliot Quotes
Because I Came To See
That I Should Never Have Been A First-rate Potter.
I Didn't Have It In Me. It's Strange, Isn't It,
That A Man Should Have A Consuming Passion
To Do Something For Which He Lacks The Capacity?
Could A Man Be Said To Have A Vocation
To Be A Second-rate Potter? To Be, At Best,
A Competent Copier, Possessed By The Craving
To Create, When One Is Wholly Uncreative?
I Don't Think So. For I Came To See,
That I Had Always Known, At The Secret Moments,
That I Didn't Have It In Me. There Are Occasions
When I Am Transported- A Different Person,
Transfigured In The Vision Of Some Marvellous Creation,
And I Feel What The Man Must Have Felt When He Made It.
But Nothing I Made Ever Gave Me That Contentment-
That State Of Utter Exhaustion And Peace
Which Comes In Dying To Give Something Life...
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