What is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” (1925)?
“Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness is the quotation at the start of T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men”.
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