At first sight the tall, stooped figure with the hawk-like features and bloodless
cheeks, the look of extreme gravitas, seems forbidding and austere, the abbot of
an ascetic order, scion of an imperial family who has foresworn the world.
--John Lehmann, "T.S. Eliot Talks About Himself and the Drive to Create," New
York Times, November 9, 1953