It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. (T. S. Eliot)

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

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