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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, American Poet

Critics, Unconscious

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"The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."

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