• It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

    T. S. Eliot: It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
    T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt