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Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.
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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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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