T. S. Eliot Quotes
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
Citations
Eliot, T. S. Selected Essays, 1917-1932. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932, p. 399.
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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.