Some Thoughts on Research

"One of the surest of tests [of merit] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets
imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something
better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique,
utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. "

T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, Philip Massinger, 1922

The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word...

...Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot, Choruses From The Rock, 1934

Contact
Auditory Research Laboratory
Dr. Shawn S. Goodman, Director
341 Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242
(319) 335-8761
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