"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"
Has had a great influence on the writing of Iris Murdoch.
What he has said: He hated the bank job T. S. Eliot “that terribly famous man” had and hated his fame, disregarding the Nobel Prize thinking that all candiates were undeserving (which makes for interesting speculation on what he must have felt upon receiving it). On T.S. Eliot winning the Nobel Prize: “Exaltered by that prize that- with the exception of Yeats- was bestowed upon none of those who would have deserved it and I witnessed the fame of this miserable creature”
“Fame wants to hang from the stars because they so far removed” “Fame is not fastidious about the lips which spread it. So long as there are mouths to reiterate the one name, it does not matter whose they are…the crowd which the seeker after fame envisages consistes of shadows, that is, of creatures who do not even have to be alive so long as they are capable of one thing, which is to repeat his name”
