Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot
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- Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
- All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.
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