From T.S. Eliot... as usual, how cleanly spoken ... with internal conversation with the poet
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure [A:or adventure]
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating [A:or adventure]
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
[A: and? What does it matter that the words have already been noted, written, published or inspired others. It is all about the writing, or the attempt... and the dialog]
Once or twice, or several times, by men [A: and women] whom one cannot hope [A: nor want]
To emulate -but there is no competition- [A: !!!]
...
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
- from FOUR QUARTETS, T.S.Eliot
(As copied from the introduction by Wyatt Mason to Arthur Rimbaud: Rimbaud Complete)
