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Quotation from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot
“Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.”
The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795)
Eliot rejects tradition as mere imitation of the previous generation.
Citation: "Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour." — T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, Tradition and the Individual Talent, I (Project Gutenberg #57795). (id eliot-the-sacred-wood-q6)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
