Famous Quotes | But the abstract...

But the abstract conception
Of private experience at its greatest intensity
Becoming universal, which we call “poetry,”
May be affirmed in verse.
- T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Attribution: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. “A Note on War Poetry.”

Categories: Critic, Experience, Poetry And Poets, Understanding

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