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Quotation from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795)
Eliot describes the artist's surrender of himself to something more valuable.
Citation: "The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality." — T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795). (id eliot-the-sacred-wood-q3)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
