Can anyone verify this quote by TS Eliot and where he said it?

http://www.enotes.com/

T.S. Eliot wrote a great deal.

Much was ("Anglo-Christian") poetry, many essays and reviews (on other writers, like "Blake, Shakespeare, Milton"), the "The Murder of ___" (dang, forgot; it was of Thomas Beckett though) and the "Old Possum"-type nearly-handbooks of "light verse" about behavior as displayed by cats, not applicable...

...I couldn't find this quote at the above reference.

You do know Eliot was a great believer in the past greatly influencing the present. He stated (approximately) study of old myths and Certainly old poems were needed for current poets to write -they had to learn from a sort of "earth" consciousness... and Certainly from the spiritual, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot

Read a lot here too, but didn't see this line.

It could even be in his long piece about the "temptation and martyrdom" of Thomas Beckett. Yet I read a lot from that at enotes.com and saw how the man was tempted; quotes of what the Chorus said about things; didn't see this line.

http://www.wikiquote.com/

Here I just put "T.S. Eliot quotes" in the search box and got many familiar ones (have studied him before, though years ago, ie. "...Prufrock" etc.) but not this particular line.

Please feel free to use all safe links provided.

Eliot's work is still under copyright I'd say, since he died in 1965, but will leave this link for your exploration as well...

http://www.gutenberg.org/ Free. Put author (and/if title) on left at their homepage.

Don't know about you, but it's dinner time here...Hope someone helped you out.