قال أحدهم: «الكُتّاب الراحلون بعيدون عنّا لأنّنا نعرف أكثر بكثير مما عرفوا». وهذا صحيح، وهم ما نعرفه.

“Someone 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 — Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920)