Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the r…

T. S. Eliot
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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2009). Collected Poems 1909-1962, p.76, Faber & Faber
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