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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
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