671 – “The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence.”

–T S Eliot

Quote Number:  746

Source: Eliot, Thomas Stearns. “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” 1919. In The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism, by Thomas Sterns Eliot. 1922.

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