The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up num…

T. S. Eliot
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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 (2014). Selected Essays, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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