It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid…

T. S. Eliot
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Selected Essays, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ✨ T. S. Eliot (2014). Selected Essays, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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