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Reader Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 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…
- Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently…
- I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
- A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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