Eliot

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“... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“It’s them as take advantage that get advantage i’ this world.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted—Pound’s, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot’s with beliefs. Where the mind’s life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.”
—R.P. Blackmur (1904–1965)