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I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.

T. S. Eliot
Greatness, Snickers, Coats
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

T. S. Eliot
Greatness, Ice, Cake
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

T. S. Eliot
Greatness, Literature, Determined
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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