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Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

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The poem’s (and poet’s) fans are legion and varied ... the journalist and scholar Robert Kaplan joins a long list of thinkers who have turned to Eliot for metaphors and maps. Kaplan describes Eliot’s ...