T. S. Eliot said it is no business of the artist to think. I presume he meant it's only the business of the artist to feel, but I like the notion of there being a mind behind the fiction that I read and that I write. John Banville
There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear. Ursula K. Le Guin
Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. T. S. Eliot writes in one of his poems, "We had the experience but missed the meaning.” Reflection is about getting the meaning. Henry Mintzberg