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T. S. Eliot Quotes

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot

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Poet Quotes
Category:
American Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 26, 1888
Date of Death:
January 4, 1965
Nationality:
American
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