Curiosa: Words to Live By

From a lecture by T.S. Eliot on John Milton, read 26 March 1947:

I believe that the scholar and the practitioner in the field of literary criticism should supplement each other's work. The criticism of the practitioner will be all the better, certainly, if he is not wholly destitute of scholarship; and the criticism of the scholar will be all the better if he has some experience of the difficulties of writing verse.

Amen, brother. Amen.