The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different… — T.S. Eliot

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.

1920
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Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays. Dover Publications, 1998.
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Eliot, T. S. "Phillip Massinger." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Methuen & Co., 1920.

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