The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, an…

T. S. Eliot
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. ✨ T.S. Eliot (2010). The Waste Land and Other Poems, p.92, Broadview Press
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