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T. S. Eliot Quotes: Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
         

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.


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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
         



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