These Great Names [Forster]
From Howards End, E. M. Forster.
No disrespect to these great names. The fault is ours, not theirs. They mean us to use them for sign-posts, and are not to blame if, in our weakness, we mistake the sign-post for the destination.
Labels: E. M. Forster
posted Thursday, October 2, 2008
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Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1922.
"Tradition and the Individual Talent."
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