When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantl…

T. S. Eliot
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. ✨ 1921 Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.
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When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. ✨ 1921 Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.

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