The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
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