T. S. 엘리엇-[산��선집]

* 변화를 두려워할 수 있는 세계의 정신은 어디인가?
변화를 두려워할 수 있는 정신은 유럽의 정신이다. 영구성의 단일한 생각을 유지하는 곳도 유럽이고, 영구성으로 집중하는 곳도 유럽이다.
Eliots idea of tradition implicitly rejects the schismatic, anti-passéiste positions of such avant-garde movements as Futurism and Dada; yet he was, on his own admission, campaigning for an avant-garde, and he proposed a view of the past which, though far from abolitionist, was not at all conventional. The work of the poet will, under certain conditions, join that which exists outside time, and speak with that voice rather than with the voice of his immediate predecessors. History is flawed by disaster; the dissociation of sensibility which occurred, according to Eliot, in the seventeenth century―the hypothesis had as its immediate stimulus the need to say something to explain the superiority of the metaphysical poets over Milton―did not prevent access, by dint of much labour, to poetry which did not divide thought and feeling; for that poetry is not borne away by time. The effort of the true poet must be, simply and enormously, to know the mind of Europe―to hold it, changing as it is in time, in a single thought of the permanence that underlies all change and without which we should be unable to apprehend change.10 This is a way of thinking that issues from some deep place in Eliots mind, and is registered in his later political and ecclesiastical writings, as well as in his poetry (16).