T.S. Eliot

In the opening pages of Rodney Needham's Belief, Language, and Experience (1972), was the following epigraph:

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years -
Twenty years largely wasted, ... -
Trying to learn to use words, 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. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating. ...

                                                                                                                -T. S. Eliot
                                                                                                                  from 'East Coker'