…the historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of
the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to
write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a
feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within
it the whole of the literature of his country has a simultaneous
existence and composes a simultaneous order. This historical sense,
which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the
timeless and temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
T.S. Eliot
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