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Quotation from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”
The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795)
Eliot's claim that a poet can be valued only in relation to the poets who came before.
Citation: "No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone." — T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795). (id eliot-the-sacred-wood-q1)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
