It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot]....

“ It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent. ”

Ross Wetzsteon

From : Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960