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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
We as a generation are in danger of justifying Eliot at his zaniest if via a blend of academic stasis and intellectual disinterest we show to the dissatisfaction of all that culture is either cumulative or it is dead, empty on either side of a social Now that admits neither passion about the future nor curiosity about the past.
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The poet has to be able to create symbols that are muted and yet undeniable. The poet, above all other writers, must know how to edit out the extraneous, received, repetitious, and misleading.
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The mystical writer uses the myth of his genius to gain power. He (since it is almost always a he) benefits from keeping up the illusions that he has natural talent and that writing cannot be taught.
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Poetry embodies in its essence the complex interaction of being.
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"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the
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Error refers to the inherent imperfection of literature, stemming from its striving for a total, perfect, or ideal form that can never be fully realized. This concept is rooted in Mallarmé's idea of the “Book,” which signifies an unattainable, perfect poem that would encompass all other poems and redeem the world.
“In effect, we know that this perf... See more
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Poetry is an essential part of society—but only as itself and not as a vehicle for something else.
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