“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

— T.S. Eliot

Source: Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

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20th century English author 1888–1965

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