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There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.
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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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
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