Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so …

T. S. Eliot
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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know. ✨ The Sacred Wood Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920)
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