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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 (Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes)

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

Source:in The Sacred Wood (ed. Methuen & Co., 1920), Page 52
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T. S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent Quotes
  • Book: Tradition and the Individual Talent
  • Writer: T. S. Eliot
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1919
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