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Language Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to…
- A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
- Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
- The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
- For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
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