"My connection with Eliot in 1914 was not exactly as you have been told it. I did not single him out as my best pupil, but I was interested in the only remark that he made during the time I was teaching at Harvard. When on one occasion I said that I admired Heraclitus he replied, 'Yes. He always reminds me of Villon'. This caused me to take an interest in him when I met him by chance in London in the following October."