Immature Poets Imitate, Mature Poets Steal

On how T. S. Eliot followed his own advice and matured.

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I love T.S. Eliot!

More than a few years ago, I was officially introduced to his work in a poetry class and it was love at first stanza.

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a…