Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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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The term culture has different associations according to whether we have in mind the development of an individual, of a group or class, or of a whole society. It is a part of my thesis that the culture of the individual is dependent upon the culture of a group or class, and that the culture of the group or class is dependent upon the culture of the
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For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.
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A great error of postmodernism is the assumption that tradition and innovation cannot co-exist.
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A person must have experience, he must live, if his artistry is to be more than a technical accomplishment. He cannot find the subject matter of his artistic activity within his art; this must be an expression of what he suffers and enjoys in other relationships — a thing which depends in turn upon the alertness and sympathy of his interests.