Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. EliotWe are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.
T. S. EliotA good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
T. S. Eliot