It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot
" "It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
About T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic. Noted for spiritual and religious themes in many of his poems, he converted from Unitarianism to Anglicanism in 1927.
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
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