Hugh Kingsmill Quote

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

"Tennyson and W. H. Auden", p. 78 - The Progress of a Biographer (1949)