Literary quote of the week: T. S. Elliot on Orwell’s Animal Farm

A letter from T. S. Elliot to George Orwell, July 13, 1944:

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm — in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.

Found at Daring Fireball