It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
- TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot