[…] and every at­tempt
Is a wholly new start, and a dif­fer­ent kind of fail­ure
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. […]

— T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, Four Quar­tets

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