Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. β¨ T. S. Eliot (1986). The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England, p.149, Harvard University Press
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