Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.


Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

T. S. Eliot Quotes

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be...

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be...

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be...

Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be...