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T.S. Eliot

“One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. 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, Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
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Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay by T.S. Eliot
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