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Thursday, September 3, 2015

T.S. Eliot's grumpy response on poetry

Do you think poetry is a necessity to modern man?


No.


What in modern life is the particular function of poetry as distinguished from other kinds of literature?


Takes up less space.


'Answers to the Three Questions', Chapbook, 27 (July 1922), 8.

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