Or as I heard John Gielgud say in aqn interview "Actors act." --- Diana Manister <[log in to unmask]> wrote: --------------------------------- Rick, I'm hoping this address is included in On Poetry and Poets, which I just ordered. Thanks for the excerpt, though. Any insight into his method is valuable. Diana --------------------------------- From: Rickard A Parker <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "T. S. Eliot Discussion forum." <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Stream of Consciousness Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:39:44 -0500 Diana, the following quotation from Eliot deals with one of the voices of poetry: In most kinds of writing, it is necessary to think, for what audience are you writing? In poetry, it is often necessary to forget the audience altogether. There are moments, certainly, when one needs encouragement to go on at all; when we need an audience of one or two people who believe in us, arid in whom we believe: but real poetry comes primarily from a pressure inside us, and not from a call from an audience. On Poetry An Address by T.S. Eliot on the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Concord Academy Concord, Massachusetts June 3, 1947 --------------------------------- Fixing up the home? Live Search can help ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com