Three Nobel Prize acceptance speeches

If you are looking for a way to verbalize differences between Faulkner, Eliot, and Yeats, you might find their Nobel Prize speeches interesting (although not necessarily reliable) encapsulations of their poetic philosophies.

• Yeats (1923): "In the country you are alone with your own violence, your own heaviness, and with the common tragedy of life, and if you have any artistic capacity you desire beautiful emotion; and, certain that the seasons will be the same always, care not how fantastic its expression."
• Eliot (1948): "I think that in poetry people of different countries and different languages - though it be apparently only through a small minority in any one country - acquire an understanding of each other which, however partial, is still essential."
• Faulkner (1950): "Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?"