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Poem Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
- Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
- What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of…
- With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of…
- He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing;…
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