that is how his poetry comes to stand, as it seems to do, at the center of revelation in this age, and, as poetry, to stand there alone

a stealthier osmosis, in modern times, requires exceptional disciplines of monastic self-surrender (or exceptional need - all the gifts, all the needs bespallof; inconsolable - defiant, belligerent, integrity?) , evidently. Eliot is almost the only example among modern poets to suggest that this might be one possible way to complete the inner process.

he underwent both the depression and the violent collapse of ego. yes. the ordeal of partrurition, from which The Wasteland emerged, marks at least one occasion where his ordinary personality had to be forcibly displaced, before that other speech and that other life, his true speech and life, could be spoken and live,d even temporarily.

he submitted himself, in his private meditation and poetic work - 'humility is endless' - to the slow, gradual change, according to that pattern where the true self remakes the ego in its own image, till the indivual is wholly transformed, and the true self takes over as openly as may be, the activitities and satisfactions of life in the world.