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Immature poets imitate mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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In my beginning is my end.
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To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
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Talent imitates, genius steals.
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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
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To make an end is to make a beginning.
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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
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