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Quotation from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot

“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an “objective correlative””

T. S. Eliot

The Sacred Wood, Hamlet and His Problems (Project Gutenberg #57795)

Portrait of T. S. Eliot

Eliot introduces the term for which this essay is famous.

Citation: "The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an “objective correlative”" — T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, Hamlet and His Problems (Project Gutenberg #57795). (id eliot-the-sacred-wood-q4)

Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.

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