Eliot and Proust
From Tradition and the Individual Talent, by T.S. Eliot:
Some one 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.
From Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust:
It was Beethoven's Quartets themselves (the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth) that devoted half a century to forming, fashioning and enlarging a public for Beethoven's Quartets.