Thomas_Stearns_Eliot_by_Lady_Ottoline_Morrell_(1934)To Ezra Loomis Pound
Hotel Danieli
Venice. March 7, 1940

You and T. S. E. are reformers, full of prophetic zeal and faith in the Advent of the Lord; whereas I am cynically content to let people educate or neglect themselves as they may prefer.

From The Letters of George Santayana:  Book Six, 1937-1940.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: The Beinicke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven CT.