In my original message I sent a paragraph that appeared to create
an Eliot quotation. It was:

   Josephine agreed with T S Eliot that we understand the poet’s
   work better if we understand something of the poet’s life. As
   Eliot said: "The poet always writes out of his personal life;
   in his finest work out of its tragedy, whatever it may be,
   remorse, lost love or loneliness."


There is this real quotation however:

   Shakespeare, too, was occupied with the struggle--which

   alone constitutes life for the poet--to transmute his personal

   and private agonies into something rich and strange, something
   universal and impersonal. The rage of Dante against Florence,
   or Pistoia, or what not, the deep surge of Shakespeare's general
   cynicism and disillusionment, are merely gigantic attempts to
   metamorpose private failures and disappointments. The great poet,
   in writing himself, writes his time.

        T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays 1917-1932

        Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca

        p. 117
 
Regards,
    Rick Parker