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Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
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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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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