It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic… - T. S. Eliot

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It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it have been worth while If one, settling a Pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: "That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all."

T. S. Eliot

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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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Alternative Names: Eliot • T S Eliot • Thomas Eliot • T.S. Eliot

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It is impossible to say just what I mean!

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That is not what I meant, at all.

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