![]() ![]() A common inheritance and a common cause unite artists consciously or unconsciously." ![]() There is accordingly something outside of the artist to which he owes allegiance, a devotion to which he must surrender and sacrifice himself in order to earn and to obtain his unique position. "I thought of literature then, as I think of it now, of the literature of the world, of the literature of Europe, of the literature of a single country, not as a collection of the writings of individuals, but as ‘organic wholes’, as systems in relation to which, and only in relation to which, individual works of literary art, and the works of individual works of literary art, and the works of individual artists, have their significance. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) The poet’s mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together." You cannot value him alone you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. ![]() His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. "No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. ![]()
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